Jay Olenik
Press man, Designer, ArtistBirthed in the heavily-wooded country sides of South-Eastern Wisconsin, and raised in the darkest reaches of the Midwestern Wilderness, a lonesome soul wandered among the trees, searching for answers to an existence born of questions…seeking solace, this man born of myth began training in the archaeic art of visual symbolic communication at an early age. Taken in by a family of artisans and intellectuals, the seed of both creative expression and sound reasoning was planted and fostered…he longed still for answers… Reaching a crisis in determining his abilities to ever become a true shaman of symbolic visual expression, this lost soul turned to the lost art of super-sonic aggression, and coupled with his dabblings in using cro-magnon transportation to pummel both wood and concrete, a new life would pulse through his veins. He explored the ruins of the urban jungle that would be called Milwaukee, as well as venturing far from his home, among a group of souls also searching, and following a similar path. Upon exhausting relationships with those there-in, who held no answers, as well as reaching a fork in his passage, he turned his eyes once again towards higher peaks in creative expression and intellectual stimulation…he strove to attain shamanship in visual symbolism… Whence beginning his training, his spirit again spoke of travel…he sought out intensive training due South of what had become his home. Settling at the base of the Lake known as Michigan, he experienced a second, more expansive wilderness of concrete and steel. Chicago. Exploring this wasteland turned playland, he found companionship in the form of a young human female. This partnership would blossom and wither over the course of his training, but would be abandoned just shy of attaining his shamanship. Upon receiving the blessing of his Mentors, and becoming a shaman in the art of visual symbolic communication, he set out to aid the likewise lost and searching in their quest for expression and communication in the visual realm. His calling would take him West, as the Wilderness called him home, and his spirit longed again for female companionship, settling at the base of the Great Rocky Mountains, to hone his skills in applying his visual communication tactics to the forms of bodily coverage articles and other mediums for appropriate symbolic message conveyance. Among the tribe at Airship Printing, this lonesome soul pushes on in his quest to aid those searching for appropriate visual communication paths and heighten his shamanism to new peaks...
