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18 Max Lightbender New Kid on the El Paseo Block While a 53-year-old may not be a “kid”, Max Lightbender looks at the world with the awe of any 7 year old. max works in the digital world at his eponymous studio, Lightbender Art studios, located at 73-255 el Paseo drive, Palm desert. angela romeo is the producer /host of coLLiDinG WorLDs tV and coLLiDinG WorLDs raDio. for more information visit www.collidingworldstvandart.com colliding Worlds tV is available on Youtube at www.youtube.com/user/AngelaValenteromeo or at colliding Worlds Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/collidingworldstv Max Lightbender, born Mark William Blackford, is self-taught. He admits to knowing “nothing about art” but has a sense of how art can be if conventions are tossed aside. His work can be oddly mystic and serene, or jarringly disturbing. With a faint tinge of his Memphis boyhood lingering in his speech, Max grew up in the world of the Gray flannel suit. His father, an ivy League graduate worked as a metals broker for alcoa aluminum company. His mother was the perfect spouse to a midlevel executive. Max seemed on the same suburban trajectory. He dreamed of being a commercial airline pilot but a serious motorcycle accident left Max with a retinal vascular inclusion in his left eye and color blindness in both eyes. With flying no longer an option, Max enrolled in a hotel management program. While working for the ritz carlton hotels, Max was stricken by illness. Unable to continue his employ with ritz carlton, Max embarked on a five year quest to find meaning to his life. Learning he was attention Deficit Disorder (aDD) seemed to pull it all together for Max. He began to see that his urge to explore and create was a part of the aDD diagnosis that was the driving artistic force within him. Max began exploring the alchemy of photography and digital software to create pixilated distortions of nature, fantasy and Hollywood. “ i purchased a printer. i downloaded digital software and from the moment i started experimenting with photo-manipulation as art. i was smitten,” says Max. “i had no idea what i was doing, yet it felt so good and gave me such a high, sometimes i would work straight for days and nights almost non-stop, forgetting to eat or sleep. i couldn’t slow down. it was compulsive. My hunger to create art—even though i was hesitant to call it that—was insatiable. others first had to identify me as an artist before i believed it myself.” Max’s entrée may seem incongruous to the el paseo art scene but art, like Max, is meant to shake the established. TUbE_VIEWING PHOTO bY DImITRI HALkIDIS By angela romeo colliding Worlds tV broadcasts on Kpse (MY 13 palm springs california) saturdays at noon and Thursdays at 6:30 am colliding Worlds radio, broadcasts and live streams weekly, saturday from 11 am to 12 pm on Kpsf 1200 aM (Money radio 1200) cW radio podcasts are available at www.collidingworldstvandart.com photos: Daniel Ryan Sonny and Cher at the kaufmans’ maser Viewing When it Pours, It Pours.
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