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Christopher Lystlund was born in Chicago, a place his family had long called home.
When he was five years old, he and his parents embarked upon a fateful journey to the Rocky Mountain West.
Captivated by the beauty of Colorado, they returned home to the Windy City, quit their jobs, sold their house,
packed up the cars and headed down the highway to Breckenridge. Christopher spent the remainder of his childhood
and his teen years in this quaint little mountain town.
After his graduation from Summit High School in 1991, he left Colorado for the frozen north and the University of North Dakota.
Here he soon found a home in the art department. Under the tutelage of the infuriating and brilliant Patrick Luber,
he began to grow as an artist. After four years in the studios at UND studying drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics,
and photography; he left Grand Forks and the flat plains of the Red River Valley.
Now began his time in Boulder. For several years he left behind the formal study of art, while continuing to pursue his artistic interests.
In 1999, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Colorado to study an entirely new form of artistic expression, computer-based design. He earned a degree in Multimedia/Web Design in 2001.
In recent years he has rediscovered a love of metal sculpture and found a use for all that geometry he was supposed to learn in school -
metal fountains. He works in a home workshop in Boulder, where he lives with his wife Melanie (she's from North Dakota) and his pet b
all python, Snake (he's from Africa).
Christopher has found artistic influence in the works of Dr. Seuss, Salvador Dali, and H.R. Giger. He also seeks inspiration in the music
of Front 242 (a Belgian industrial band), Talking Heads, Glenn Miller, and Count Basie.
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