LOREN: the person

i'm a molecular biologist by training and an ordinary guy by sheer force of will. i was born in an active fault zone in the mid-1990s and now i live in connecticut. my favorite color changes a lot but i keep coming back to seafoam green, even though it's not quite the color of sea foam. i enjoy taking photos of bugs.

i am a huge fan of my boyfriend, ben, who is an artist. he made the painting of me featured to the left (or above, if you're reading this on a narrow screen). we see a lot of music together (mostly free jazz and noise), and ben often does live drawings of the musicians. i made another site, drawingsformusic.org, to facilitate simultaneous looking and listening. you can buy prints of ben's watercolors online, and zines if you ask one of us, probably.