Author Biography
Zachary Bavirsha is an artist and poet. Everyone calls him Zach. He started creating art at a young age and has had an ever-growing passion for the arts throughout his life. While attending the Minooka Grade School in Minooka, Illinois, he was in the gifted art program. This program introduced him to the common types of media in the field of art. At Minooka High School he formed a band with friends and started writing lyrics. After writing a few songs he began to write poetry that was infused with rhythm and personal experience. On the day of his high school graduation in 2001, Zach received the Most Outstanding Student in Art Award. He continued studying art through college at Northern Illinois Univerity in DeKalb, Illinois. In his free time, he persistently wrote poetry. It was in college that Zach made a transition to producing abstract art. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University in December, 2008 he had a clear vision and purpose for his work. He began calling his abstract works mental landscapes. A mental landscape is an image that depicts an emotional state from using an immediate and reactive creative process. Zach's poetry expresses universal ideas and emotions through metaphor and personal experience. Zach completed the book Journey Of The Heart at the beginning of 2015. The book is a culmination of a lifetime of work, and compiles various mental landscapes and poems.
