I make art as a way to record one’s true essence on a fixed surface. The vehicle to investigate human existence throughout all of my artworks is created using a combination of traditional drawing and painting techniques along with contemporary approaches. I interpret the human body and psyche through a plethora of mediums including oil paint, pastels, graphite, charcoal, and colored pencil. I explore each instrument and it’s relationship to flesh and form through realism. I often layer sacred patterns and symbols into the composition which allows for a metaphorical transformation of the higher-self into matter. Upon a detailed inspection you will find hidden messages and meanings embedded into multiple facets of the work.

Speaking to my most current work of ‘Orb Heads’, each oil painting bridges the gap from historical time periods to modern day through the juxtaposition of vibrant designs and traditional renderings of flesh and form. Allowing ritual and divination to bury itself into special elements within still-life objects and adornments such as clothing, body art and jewelry. A “Cabinet of curiosities”, a Wunderkammer, so to say. These ‘Orb Heads’ create a bit of mystery. They begin to speak their own language through the mess of swirling colors and pattern. With each orb expressing its own vibration iteratively, expanding its self outward to areas contained within the canvas surface.