My name is Kiersten Valence-- I'm a belly dancer, artist, model, punk singer, horror makeup artist, and over all rabble-rouser. I'm based in sunny Austin, Texas.
As for my artistic "brand", my style is versatile, multidisciplinary, and eclectic, but shares a common theme of edginess. I seek to be evocative, not provocative. I use digital collage as a medium through which to capture a feeling-- it is not the specific symbols that make up the picture, it's the mood of a picture as a whole. I begin with a sensation: I visualize it, and translate it into imagery.
"If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree."
www.kierstenvalence.com
www.modelmayhem.com/3483463
www.kierstenvalence.wix.com/valence
Favourite Visual Artist
Malcolm Liepke, Munch, van Gogh, Karborn
Favourite Movies
Silence of the Lambs, Pan's Labyrinth, Repo! The Genetic Opera, No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, John Dies at the End
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Queens of the Stone Age, Patti Smith, Bikini Kill, Massive Attack, Janis Joplin, Hot Chip, Le Butcherettes
Favourite Writers
Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan, Cormac McCarthy, Ayn Rand, Douglas Adams, David Wong
Tools of the Trade
Digital Collage, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache
Other Interests
Belly Dance, Modeling, Writing, etc