my mother, Maria Tereza Sinohui in 1974

I've been employed in the sciences over the past 20 years. I've built lasers and laser systems that are used every facet of research and development. It's been a rich career with many challenges that have molded my sense of critical thinking and problem solving. My primary instruments have been ones that generate light and harness the useful properties therein to reveal information about the world. 

Here's a link to an Engineering podcast I was a guest for: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/being-an-engineer-1144621/episodes/s4e35-shawn-patterson-interfer-185704615

As an artist in the musical realm, my primary instruments are my voice, my ears, guitar, the life I've lead, and my imagination. I write and perform original music from two main sources, fantasy & circumstance. My life has been a roller coaster of unforgettable friends, a few hard spots with the cops, a wreckage of broken romances, ...and, that far off vision of what should be. When I'm reaching a balance with a song, the lyrics and grooves start to put themselves together and my mind’s eye takes over