Monica Horn Art Gallery
Monica Horn
Monica began volunteering at Vintage Theatre in 2010 following her retirement from a 26-year career in aviation. During the next 10 years, she was active in Technical Production at Vintage, helping build many sets as a scenic carpenter, assisting with general building maintenance and working backstage for several shows. In addition to her Technical Production contributions at Vintage, she served on Vintage Board of Directors for 4 years.
Outside of Vintage, she has been involved in audio/video production at her church and has crewed on shows for public access television. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing the Colorado’s mountains, and remodeling and decorating her Arvada home. Monica is grateful for all the wonderful people she has met and the good times she has shared with Vintage Theatre.
Jason is an internationally renowned storm chaser and weather photographer. A Colorado native, Jason developed a love of photography as a young child photographing weather of all the different seasons. Son of Denver actress Deborah Persoff, Jason learned to lean into his art and was supported in his pursuits.
Through a chance encounter with one of the world’s best snowflake photographers, Don Komarechka, Jason learned how to photograph snowflakes up close including capturing their amazing 3D architecture. Eventually Jason developed and refined his own techniques into what you are seeing today.
Jason is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital. He is the Assistant Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness there as well. His love of medicine comes from his father, Mike, and his uncles. He is married to his wife of 28 years Irma, and has three adult children, Malokai, Kieran, and Larissa.
About The Snow Flakes
It is absolutely true that no two snowflakes are the same—microscopic differences in temperature, humidity, and wind affect crystallization over very short distances (nanometers) resulting in vastly different outcomes.
Even the wind can affect how the crystal grows (see if you can spot the snowflake that was affected by wind pushing water molecules preferentially to one side, resulting in asymmetry).
Look at the individual branches and see how they differ! Most snowflakes create a small bubble at their center that collapses and crystallizes into amazingly intricate shapes (some look like hieroglyphs, others like alien writing).
What About the Coloring?
During crystallization different layers of ice form which when stacked on one another create differing layers of reflectivity. When light reflected from the lower layer mixes with light from the upper layer, colors form (similar to the surface of soap bubbles or of gasoline on water). These colors are real and happen naturally.
