Hello,
I'm Michael Barrett.
Make like a tree and bark.
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New work: The crows return to Venice in autumn
Meditating on time passing with crows.
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Bean Boy
My 4-year veggie anniversary passed last summer and I didn't even notice.
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Three shirts
On becoming a Brooks Brothers customer; a justification of my bougieness
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Oh no, I broke my poodle
My poodle remains stoic when faced with what must be terrible pain
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Marking the days – an artwork for Instagram
For the last quarter of the year, I’m turning my Instagram into a calendar.
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48 hours in Pittsburgh
Tagging along on a work trip to beautiful downtown Pittsburgh, just long enough to visit the Andy Warhol Museum
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Virginia Jaramillo at the Bechtler
Notes on Charlotte, Waffle House in the rain, and Virginia Jaramillo’s retrospective at the Bechtler.
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Instagram in 2025
How I'm using Instagram in 2025. Making the most of a hostile platform.
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Visiting Monet at PAM
Visiting Monet's Waterlilies at the Portland Museum of Art
About
I grew up in Charlotte, NC. I attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After a brief stint painting murals and working in galleries, I earnd a Master of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. There, I began to experiment with web development, digital imaging, and large format printing.
After graduate school, I found my way to the west coast and into a software development career. My greatest expertise is in front-end engineering but I have also worked as a full-stack web developer and web service developerusing Java, C#, and Python. I have worked extensively with cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and have worked with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
I prefer VisualStudio Code as my general purpose code editor on macOS. I prefer Procreate on the iPad for painting. I prefer Sketch on macOS for creating icons and graphics for the web. PixelmatorPro is pretty nice too.