As a self-taught artist, the process of creating art has been a very personal journey for me.  I initially paint as a form of mental therapy.  In 2000, my father was diagnosed with cancer.  The prognosis was bleak, and I was devastated.  During this period, I spent more time with him and used the creative process to release and express emotions that I couldn’t express with words.  After he passed, painting was my way of mourning, and it got me through difficult times. 

Since then, my works have gone on to become personal journals that document identity, spirituality, family, states of being, and my observations and explorations of my surroundings and humanity.  As I age, my art reaches further inward to explore mortality, existentialism, and purpose.  While my works are deeply personal, they are also universal because all of us are on the same search through this journey in life.

Everything I create is true to who I am.  My ultimate goal as an artist is to provoke anything but indifference from the observer.