The Works of SIN

Trynon Robinson
January 31, 2008
Advanced Digital Photography

My art and photography represent all the anger, passion and madness that is me. I was raised in a strict religious home following the teachings of a religious cult. I was always told I couldn’t be me. After seeing the women in my family endure verbal and physical abuse I told myself that I would never let myself be an abuser of women. My first relationship was with a girl who had been in a previous violent relationship. So, when she started physically attacking me in arguments, I experienced flashbacks from my childhood and was caught up in the violence.
Since I had been a member in several gangs, I moved my family in an attempt to avoid prison or death. While working as a security guard, I was severely beaten and raped by gang members trying to steal a car. I slowly deteriorated mentally and ended up in a mental hospital where I turned to art. When I was trying to get my life together after getting out, I started with an art class at a local college. I soon was taking a full course load. I have not been back to a mental hospital since I started school.
I now help teach people to explore their sexual fantasies through role play and BDSM as well as spiritually advise thousands on MySpace. So, I guess my work is about freedom, about being sexy but deadly. Everything I couldn’t be while growing up. Today, I am so far from the little boy who played with G.I. Joes but was told he could not be a soldier or a football player. I was always told to turn the other cheek so I shied away from violence as a kid. As I got out on my own, the world taught a different story. I’m still 150% male meaning that I like working with women and I like action and adventure. There’s probably not an action, sci-fi or fantasy comic book or movie that I haven’t seen or owned.
Right now, I’m all about angles with my work. In the past, my work was about mastering the comic book card whole body shot look. I am the type of person who will run something into the ground until I feel I have mastered it. My next skill to master is action photography, catching a model in the movement of swinging a sword with clarity.
While I’m working out my photography, I’m also working on my Photoshop skills. I’m trying different things and looking for new ways to give a picture more presence with contrast, color and depth. I don’t always look to hit even between the three. Sometimes I may push one or the other to the extreme. I’m bored with most forms of photography because, to me, eventually it’s all the same type of style. Someone can get ten shots from some quick shop or they can come get several masterpieces from me. I post a lot on MySpace so I receive plenty of feedback. People tell me what they do and don’t like but I really don’t care. Not to sound smug but I would be making art if I was the last man on earth with no one to show but me. It’s how I survive.