Valerie A. Kenyon
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | illustrator, linguist, thespian |
| Location | Puritanic Sands, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | I am an artist and designer living in Puritanic Sands, Massachusetts. In 2018, I published an eBook, "Scrooge Studies: An Illustrated Exploration of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'." Previously I have lived in a couple of other places, notably Yasothon, Thailand, and New York City. Another important design accomplishment of mine has been my design and construction of a face-changing costume, inspired by seeing a live performance of it in Yasothon, Thailand, in 2010, and another 10 or more shows over the next few years. |
| Interests | Drawing, Printmaking, Costume Design, Acting Training, Set Design, German, Thai, Chinese, Latin, Medieval History, Chinese/Chaozhou/Teochew/Sichuan Opera, Face-changing, Thai Classical Dance (Khone/โขน), computer programming |
| Favorite movies | Along Came Polly, Last Life in the Universe, Beautiful Boxer, The Crying Game, High Plains Drifter, Apocalypse Now, Wallace and Gromit (the original short films), Tomorrow Never Dies (I love the helicopter-motorcycle chase scene - I'm convinced it was shot in the Yaowarat neighborhood of Bangkok) |
| Favorite music | Early Music, Baroque, Classical, Chinese Opera, Teochew/Chaozhou Opera, Morlam Isaan, Western Choral Music (Handel/Mozart/some 19th century Opera), 1980s, Pentatonix |
| Favorite books | John Fitchen's Construction of Gothic Cathedrals, anything by David Macaulay, Françoise Gilot's Life with Picasso, JRR Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham, Madison A. Moore's Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric |