Hello from New York City

<p>Christine Nelson<br /><br /><br /> I was born and raised on Long Island where I resided until my early twenties. I grew up in a two parent household with one sibling. I spent most of my days drawing and sketching which became an outlet for me to express my feelings, thoughts and desires, artistically rather than verbally. Following High School, I attended Hofstra University where I majored in Graphic Designing and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree. The love and passion that I soon developed for a variety of mediums became the basis for my designs. Upon entering the work field after graduation, I had the opportunity to design for the following firms: Cline, Davis and Mann, Direggio Advertising, BJ’ s Wholesale Club and in 1992 I continued to work as a freelance artist under the name of Major N Designs. However, in 1995, I suffered from a stroke which paralyzed the right side of my body and has ultimately affected my expressive and receptive language skills. Since my injury I have had extensive rehabiliation in order to relearn all of my developmental milestones (walking, talking). <br /> Despite my disability I continue to design and live my life prior to my injury. I am very devoted to my work and am always improving upon it. Through hard work and dedication I have recently exhibiited my designs at Venezuelan Consult Gallery ( Feb. 2005) and Lincoln Center, Cork Gallery (2004). In addition, I completed residency at the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation in Maine for artists. <br /> Presently I specialize in street photography here in New York City. The ambiance of the city combined with nature excites me. I never run out of different perspectives in this beautiful town. You can take a look at my work athttp://majorn.wordpress.com/<br /> Thanks for reading this! I hope to be chatting with you all soon!<img src="http://majorn.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/drink-cn.jpg?w=640" alt="" width="640" height="382" /></p>

<p>Check out the street and doc forum here on PN if you haven't:)</p>

Congrats to you for working through a difficult setback. That is very cool.

 

Welcome to photo.net.

<p>Welcome to photo.net. Admirable comeback from such a tramatic change in your life. Your experience will be most welcome here and I encourage you to provide as much feedback to others as you can. It will be returned in kind.</p>

<p>Welcome from another Long Islander. You have an amazing and encouraging story. Thanks for sharing.</p>

<p>Hello everyone and thanks for the responses! I really appreciate your encouragements! I use personal assistants for spelling so I might not be very frequent, but I really do want to keep up our conversations. I'll be checking your work too!</p>

<p>Talk to you soon!</p>