The Story of Nolan
In October of 1985, Dina Duarte had her first and only son who she named Nolan Keith Duarte. His pursuit into art as a career started at the age of eighteen illustrating comic books and designing tattoos on the side. At the time, he was attending Mira Costa College majoring in History and teaching English as a second language. He was enrolled a few life drawing classes after he graduated high school, but acquired his skills by educating himself via trial and error. He does design projects on the aside, but discards the title of designer as a misrepresentation, preferring to be branded as an artist who always uses “twice the effort” on any project that follows the one he finishes last. If you were to ask him why he draws or paints, his answer would not be as a source of income. Instead, his work is a transmission between his emotions, and his brush on to the canvas. One of his main virtues is to confront nihilistic values and rather than to be championed. “My work without meaning is self without being.”
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