“Christina Liu was thrown into this world via the black market.  Her mother was part of the Chinese Mafia known as the Triads, killed in an underground gambling raid, Christina was orphaned by the Head gangster Liu Hongum.  Growing up in a dark world, she has seen and dealt death with her own hands.  Wanting to turn her life around she came to America wanting to learn a trade so she studied art and has killed the canvas ever since” — Travis Ripley, Biographer

Steph likes to figure out things, and tends to plod along. She wants to work on many projects but tends to veer towards work with mixed subjects such as structure, ambiguity, and reason.

Michael Tussey was born in San Diego and has lived nowhere else. He pretends to be a graphic designer, but is a librarian at heart. Michael appreciates fine ale, fine food and fine art. He enjoys longboarding and jazz, but draws inspiration from neither. He has attended the San Diego Comic Con annually for seventeen years. As a boy, Michael told his neighborhood pals he would rather play video games than involve himself with girls. He wishes he could remain a kid forever.

Clarke Forrest has been making weird stuff for several years now, occasionally wears glasses and has a regular boy’s haircut. His multiple higher education degrees vary in practicality and repute, but allow him to work at an architectural firm in San Diego. Clarke’s uncanny inability to focus and wide spectrum of interests have shown him the hidden joy and humor of our surroundings, while his work represents his frantic attempts to document this joy however he can.

Wes Bruce is from the woods and currently lives in a basement in South Park/Golden Hill.  He keeps his hands and imagination busy with a handful of different creative processes, including but not limited to: installation, illustration, painting, printmaking, scavenging, sewing, stealing, story archiving, and general exploring. He hopes to become more curious with the people around him.

Lindsay Preston is an illustrator and graphic designer from sunny San Diego. After receiving a BA in graphic design, she continues to do freelance design and illustration while pursuing work in contemporary museum art education at the New Children’s Museum and the Contemporary Museum of SD. She is inspired by shapes and patterns; in nature, in foreign cultures, and in human action. Lindsay enjoys drawing things and people, riding her Centurion bike around town, making things, reading out loud, collecting records and objects, and hearing people use phrases like “as the crow flies.”