Jason is hard at work. (image from Passion Works)
This flower is one of Jason's personal faves.
"It started as something to do; now it's showing up everywhere," Jason said. On his work in general, he said, "I figure my job is to try to drag Passion Works into the 21st century, instead of the 1960s."Jason has worked with the studio for seven years now. He remembers the old building, which was a "glorified storage closet"--literally. It was used as a King Midget car factory beforehand. Jason said there were sometimes seven or more artists crammed into the tiny room, and that there wasn't much room to do anything, and the light hardly worked.
Jason has been labeled Passion Works' "resident philosopher." He says he got it because he "comes up with different ways to put stuff that's out of the norm."
About his art, Jason said he "(wants) to be different. I wanna use the normal colors in an abnormal way." Birds commonly show up in his work, as they symbolize freedom of flight for Jason, which is counterposed to his being in a wheelchair.
"The closest thing I got to where the wheelchair didn't matter was when I climbed a wall," Jason said. He used a special harness at Ping and "did pull-ups" to get to the top. "It was so exhilarating; for one fleeting second the wheelchair didn't matter. I wasn't the guy in the wheelchair, I was the guy who made the climbing wall my bitch," Jason said.
In his spare time, Jason enjoys talking on amateur radio. He's been licensed for 19 years, starting in high school. Surprisingly, he doesn't have a handle, yet he's taken three tests to obtain the highest licensed classification--Amateur Extra. He said you can't talk on every frequency right away, per the FCC, which surprised me--I had a CB radio around sixth grade and would even talk on the emergency channel for fun.
Jason has the highest operator privileges.
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