WHO IS TIGER

Tiger is a veterinarian, father, committed life partner, multidisciplinary immersive artist, and systems-oriented thinker based in the Chicago area.

This site grows out of an ongoing experiment in authentic living through sound, body, symbol, writing, and lived philosophy. It emerges from a life shaped by medicine, art, neurodivergence, community, self-authorship, and a growing commitment to embodiment, core values, and individual empowerment.

Raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Tiger attended veterinary school at Michigan State University and completed a rotating internship at Virginia Tech before returning to the Chicago area to help raise his daughter.

Veterinary medicine forms the center of his professional life. Through an independent contracting business, Tiger provides locum relief services to clinics throughout the Chicago area, along with specialized services including mobile diagnostic and interventional ultrasound.

Art is not separate from that life, but another essential expression of it. As a multidisciplinary immersive artist, Tiger found in music, visual art, and movement some of his deepest forms of self-expression and communication, leading to the development of DJing, music making, visual symbolism, and movement art through the flow arts. That artistic identity forms much of the foundation for the website itself, which is as much an artistic expression as it is a reflection of the way he lives.

Tiger is AuDHD, queer, and an egalitarian, non-hierarchical polyamorist who goes by he / they pronouns. These are not incidental facts, but meaningful parts of how he understands relationship, selfhood, regulation, autonomy, and the conditions that support authentic becoming. Radical visibility, in this sense, is not performance. It is one more expression of living openly and truthfully without unnecessary self-erasure.

Tiger’s inner life has been shaped as much by psychology and philosophy as by art and medicine. He holds strong and enduring interests in existential psychotherapy, above-ground psychedelic-assisted therapy advocacy, Buddhism, and Taoism. These influences have played an important role in self-inquiry, identity formation, and emerging neurodivergent self-awareness, while also informing his orientation as both a mentor and a lifelong learner.

The Burning Man community and its Principles have also had a profound influence on Tiger's adult life, shaping both his lived values and his long-term vision for a world that is more just, more empowering of individuals, and more rooted in consent, authenticity, and meaningful participation.

Another major area of focus is AI architecture and human–AI systems design. Tiger is building and publishing a growing body of work around cross-domain AI integration to improve outcomes in personal growth, artistic expression, medicine, finance, and other areas of life where coherence, structure, and better decision support matter. He is also a strong advocate for ethical AI use and implementation, including AI decentralization, stewardship of civil rights, economic access, and environmental sustainability as artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in modern society.

Who Tiger is cannot be reduced to a profession, an art practice, or a philosophy alone. The work documented here emerges from the meeting point between these parts of his life — a lived process of becoming that continues to unfold in public, in practice, and in relationship.