The New York Times has a fascinating profile on super-talented Illustration student Max Pauson, and his journey to Art Center.

“…This promising art student’s strong sense of self was hard-earned. It was forged in an unstable, emotionally wrenching childhood and, in an odd detail that might serve as a metaphor for his struggles, it comes after 19 years of life without a legal name. His birth certificate read only ‘(baby boy) Pauson.’ Name to come.”

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