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Featured artist: Roy Leban
"In all of my art, I am looking for the unexpected. I want images that surprise and delight, that are not what they seem, or seem to be what they are not.
My photographic essays tell stories by juxtaposing images and fragments of images from a place or event for a visual effect that works from a distance but yields more detail – sometimes surprising – as you approach and look closer. The stories almost always have a beginning and usually an end, but I leave the path through the story up to the viewer.
My puzzles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GAMES magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and in newspapers, books, and puzzle collections around the world. My hobbies include ambigrams and gourmet cooking. I was born in Brooklyn, and raised there and in Taiwan, Japan, and Kansas. I studied Spanish and Russian, Shakespeare and Mathematics, Computer Science and Cognitive Science.
A unifying theme in my career and all of my avocations is understanding people and their perceptions. I spend most of my time architecting and developing computer software, where I am an expert at designing and building highly usable software and technology-based systems.
Artistic influences include: Ansel Adams, Alexander Calder, Piet Mondrian, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bill Waterston, among others.
I am currently working toward a book of photographic essays as well as a photographic book on election politics."
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