I am an artist, an author, a content creator, and an entrepreneur, I am many things, but my first occupation above all else is that of a visionary.
Before I type out a long heartfelt autobiography I want to get across my core message and philosophy in why and how I create what I do. Ever since i was young my mind has been in the sky looking beyond our world and towards what existence could hold, my creative works are a deep expression of this unsettling and unceasing feeling of wanting the experience of life to be “More” than our reality allows it to be.
The reason that I share my work is to allow others to partake in a tiny frame of idyllic visions where our existence is not bound to our physical presence but to our perception and imagination. My artwork is like a tiny snapshot into the minds eye allowing you to ponder on the existential scale of our existence. My writing is speculative dream of a universe with different rules and laws where ideology’s can be explored to their zenith’s.
My work is my way to express that everyone should feel free to dream, imagine, speculate, iterate, progress, adapt, and change the very world around them through ideas and ideals. I am a visionary, and I want the world to have more visionaries.
S. T. Fatewrite is obviously a pen name, to be perfectly honest I have never really liked my Government name and it is a very rare name so I’m not going to use it online for privacy and identity security reasons. my name is not exactly a secret or anything but this is just how I decided to represent myself publicly. For those who are curious how I came up with this pen name its actually rather simple, the initials are just my real first and middle initial. “Fatewrite” is a combination of my Online Username that I have used variants of for over 20 years now “Fate” and the word “write” because I’m a writer, its not really that deep, it was just the easiest thing I could come up with that wasn’t trademarked or in use when I started on my writing universe. Most people who know me online just call me “Fate”
I am an Autistic/ADHD plagued artist and writer from a small town in eastern Texas. I am a life long artist, giant nerd for all things science fiction and fantasy, a massive anime/manga fan, an avid reader, Medieval combat enthusiast, and part time armchair astrophysicist/astronomer.
I first learned to paint as a toddler from my late grandmother Catharine Clara Robinson who was a lifelong artist favoring still life’s and landscapes until her mind was claimed by Alzheimer’s when I was still fairly young. From there I was enrolled in art classes every single year from kindergarten to college and i have explored many mediums over the years settling most recently on Acrylic Painting.
The vast majority of my artist journey over the last 10-15 years has been in ink Illustrations with very little color and where technique, precision, and living with mistakes are just the way the game is played. Most of my artwork up untill around a year ago was just passing time while doing other tasks like working night shifts at my old job and it took a lot for me to really embrace my artistic talents as anything more than a hobby to ease my mind.
It wasn’t until I was almost 30 that I really started to share my work with others and gain a sense of “Purpose” to my work. Prior to this turning point my art was just something to ease my mind during other tasks or for use in personal projects as concept artwork. I never really “did anything” with my work except occasionally pull out a folder of it to show to people.
The first thing that started this change was my writing universe, I am very much diagnosed with worldbuilders disease and my artwork is a big part of that condition. But it was also the stepping stone into sharing my work, it was the various projects for my writing universe Specifically a star map of the galaxies and factions within my writing universe that tipped the bolder over the hill.
Starmap V2 took me several weeks to finish and is probably still my most detailed illustration, but that’s not what made it unique for me. My work has gotten better and better over the years and that was always natural to me but this was the first piece that I’ve made where not showing it to people gave me more anxiety than sharing it would, which is odd for me because I have never been active on social media or art communities but this prompted me to slowly start to open up with my work.
