Hey,

I'm Julian Stropes. I was born and raised in Hutchinson Kansas, so bigger cities and everything that goes with that is pretty new to me.
I like it.
I plan to major in painting, though most of my work is multimedia.

Philosophy has conceptually influenced my work often in the past (last year I did a few works on Heidegger's concept of Dasein and, subsequently, how I really don't like gerunds). Most of my experience with philosophy has to do with recent thinkers (the earliest I've read is a bit of Thomas More) so I'm interested to learn the foundations of their thinking as, so far, I've only had a general knowledge of the subject. I, generally, don't like to apply this sort of thing to my own life as I think beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning by giving it automatic answers – but I do find the subjects interesting and thought-proviking, which I'm all for.