Ted Cox is an artist, author, and musician based in Tucson, Arizona.

Hi there,

Thanks for taking an interest in my work.

First, I'm a proud father of two, brilliant and handsome young men. Just their presence is enough to inspire me, yet they never cease to spark new energy into my life with their evolving and ever-engaging personalities, expressed thoughts, interests, actions, and beings.

During the day, I'm a CPA, currently practicing as a corporate accountant for a public medical device manufacturer in Tucson. I'm licensed here in my home state of Arizona where I grew up, attending Canyon del Oro High School and earning my Bachelors in Accounting and Masters in Business at what is now the University of Arizona Global Campus after attending Pima Community College and the U of A.

I was interested in drawing in high school, where I also played trombone in jazz and concert band, eventually joining the U of A Jazzwerx program and the Tucson Philharmonic Youth Orchestra alongside earning the Drum Major position for the CDO Marching Band during my junior and senior years. I took up the guitar, an instrument that sustained my musical interest throughout college, where I focused on other endeavors like writing, producing my first major works, an unpublished novella and the artwork, Perspective.me, while dabbling in poetry and photography. I started writing music, took up painting, tried my hand at tile mosaic, and now, I'm learning the piano.

Creativity is an invisible force that comes and goes, flowing when its here and noticeable when it's gone. It feels purposeful and deliberate, filling me with joy and contentment when I'm fortunate to feel it channeling through me but also, learning of its clever nature through the decades, when I'm waiting for it to come back. I don't have a preferred medium through which to express this energy, always happy to entertain a new method or fall back to an old favorite, I'm learning to trust what feels right while balancing an accustomization to the discomfort of gaining a foreign skillset. I'm a jack of varying trades, not a master of any one.

You should know the art I create is for me, purely selfish. If it moves you, that does make me happy, but I can only know myself in that way, and so my creations are aimed at those parts within, trusting that our shared humanity will allow at least some of it to translate over to you. If not, I'd direct you to the gazillion other people who tried and are trying and will try to do the same. Down below are a few of those who do so for me.

Peace be with you.

Ted

Influences:

  • Dave Matthews Band

  • Vincent Van Gogh

  • Bob Dylan

  • Stephen King

  • Cake

  • Sam Harris

  • Ben Folds Five

  • Anne Rice

  • The Killers

  • John Grisham

  • Coldplay

  • James C Christensen

  • Death Cab for Cutie

  • David Viscott

  • Bill Watterson