Christopher Woodyard The art and artist. Christopher Woodyard is a fiction writer, musician and nature photographer. He was born in the north eastern comun of Pordenone, Italy in 1990 to U.S military parents and is currently based in San Francisco, California. He began drawing after reading, \"The Art of Living\", by the American-Romanian cartoonist Saul Steinberg during the mental anguish of writer's block . His artwork and photographs have been displayed in galleries in the Lower East Side, West Village and shown in the One World Trade Center in New York City. He is currently composing a graphic novel of poems, short stories and illustrations.**