When I started this site back in 1996, I had a whopping total of 3 images. I clearly remember my first few hits and the excitement that came with them. On a personal level, it was exhilarating and frightening at the same time.
Since then, my work has been a steady flow of images that actually represent one long process of growth and amazing life experiences too. I can't begin to express how the places I've seen, the people I've met and had meaningful conversations with, the things I've experienced because of this art have had a profound affect on my life and my sensibilities.
Many people have asked me what my work is about. My response has always been "You tell me." My work isn't about what I think of it; it's about how it affects you: the viewer. I hope you get something out of it like I have.
Perhaps the most important benefit from being tsubasa for the past 20 years has been the friends I’ve made (as cliché as that may sound.) I’ve made friends who are models, photographers, promoters, artists and everyday people who love fetish at many different levels. I met an activist filmmaker at my very first tsubasa show who will be a friend for life even if we don’t keep in touch like we should. I have amazing friends who throw fatastic parties in Germany and allow me the priveledge of managing their advertising year-after-year-after-year. I have no idea what the future holds for tsubasa. You'll find out just as soon as I do.
Tsubasa was born in Kansas, grew up in Texas and has always been a student of art. In 1990, he took on a job as a designer and began using computers to produce both design and art. Soon after, tsubasa's influences in Dali, Sorayama, Escher, Giger and plethora of fetish photographers congealed into the beginnings of tsubasa art. Dropping traditional pencils and paint for newer digital graphics and photography carved the way for what is now a long string of cyber-erotic, tsubasa imagery.