Shannon bonatakis biography
Shannon Bonatakis is an artist..
Art Talk with Shannon Bonatakis
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., moved to Florida when she was a child and grew up outside of Orlando. She’s a killer whistler, in love with Colorado’s dry climate and prefers working locked in a room during the wee hours.
Rooster: Did you spend a good amount of your childhood making art?
S.B.: Yes, almost obsessively. Around the 4th grade it became clear to the adults in my life that I had a proclivity for drawing beyond what my peers were doing, and from that point on I basically locked myself in my bedroom and obsessively drew by myself into all hours of the night.
Photo by Shannon Bonatakis on November 07, May be an image.
R: Did any literature inspire your imagination? Specific titles?
S.B.: I was also an obsessive reader— to the point that my parents grounded me from reading, which meant that I was only allowed to spend two hours a day with my nose in a book.
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