Retrospective By Tori English ou have all my love, now do something with it.” – D in his first book, “Transitions” It could be said that the above statement sums up who D is. While sharing a witty and remarkable side with the public, he has thoughtfully entwined lessons on humanity into each of his sometimes-successful endeavors. Since 1998 D has been entertaining mostly on the Internet. Through his paintings, essays, photographs, and thousands of designs we have gotten more than just a taste of who this person is. D is a free spirit with a very open mind. The view from D’s eyes is an interesting one. There is no bullshit in his world and that is the bottom line. Beginning the site called “Fire” he displayed early poetry and took us from one host to another. The “Fire” period lasted from approximately 1998 to 2002. During that time we got to watch D on cam, read him rant about growing up in suburbia, and manipulate hundreds of pictures of himself. One of D’s finer qualities in this time was his poetry. People of all kinds were inspired by it and much praise was heaped upon him for his style of writing. “Fire” wound down and after a rewarding run it was replaced with a new project called “burningOrbit.” The Orbit was a freeing experience in a way. It was D’s first time on his own with his own domain, being even more successful than before. Throughout 2002 and 2003 a transformation took place. Poetry was put on the back burner, as everyone seemed to prefer to stare at D instead. Hundreds of photo shoots too place during the Orbit years, showing a different and much more candid side of this artist. In July of 2003 D participated in the Blogathon, a 24-hour charity event. He raised money for the Matthew Shepherd Foundation. Little did we know it, but the Blogathon was the last act of burningOrbit’s life as in September the project was put to bed. Abruptly ending only after a year, burningOrbit still succeeded to cover another large facet of D’s artistic ability. Not only did we see more expression of all kinds, but more activity within the Internet community. After months off it was rumored that D would never return. In reality D had been taking time to separate the past from the present. Many things changed and what we once knew of the artist called D was now gone. While away he did a side project for his alter ego called Krystal McQueen. After completing krystalmcqueen.com he became webmaster of a short-lived underground New York magazine. For two months he worked with the publisher and contributors on the project. Compiling his first book, a collection from the first eight years of his artistic career, D returned to the web with what was to be his third major project. It was titled “Keket Ma’at” and symbolized new beginnings. Keket became the bridge for D’s return. It featured some new poetry and more artwork. Little photography or modeling was shared on the new website. Actually, the only photos appearing of D were completely artistic and never strayed from the transgendered theme. With the Keket project only lasting two months, it was apparent the direction D wanted to go in now. Instead of focusing on a certain aspect he wanted to focus on all of his talents equally without any bias. Growth is what you see if you have been a faithful fan and friend. With each passing year the projects grew and changed into enlightening entities. There have been too many projects branching off the main ones to review here. Yet each and every one of them brought people together and gave them something they needed at the time. The friends, love, knowledge and positive energy that has been spread because of D’s endeavors is one of great mention. No matter what the project there is always truth and love leaving a lasting impression on all that came across them. It leaves one wondering what is next for the artist D.