Dacota Maphis – visual artist – Art is life and life is art, expressing that is where it gets interesting. Choices of what, why and how lets your personality show. My showing of art is a bit scattered, but my voice is always to inspire meaningful thought that lives in love and caring. I have been a photographer for over forty years which then lead me to add to the mix digital art for the last ten years. In between there has also been wearable art, oil portrait painting, 3D display art, abstract collaborative art (Expressions by D&D) but what I’m best known for is my style of digital art that I call Digital PHra (Photo Revised Art). That is what I'm showing in this Pinecrest Garden Virtual Fine Art Festival. I approach this process as an unsolved puzzle, starting with an original photograph for my inspiration. Always working within the limitations of the existing pixels, I push and pull them around to transform the photograph into a totally new dramatic expression, as if the pixels were paint on a canvas. Revealing relevance to what I am experiencing in life or a themed project. I am a full-time award-winning artist born in Greenville South Carolina and creating art daily in Clearwater, FL.