Artist's Statement
I attach little importance to flamboyant technique; instead, I focus on the impact that environments, experiences, people, and events—whether past or present—have upon me. I favor a straightforward, unadorned expression of emotion. I am not adept at socializing, nor do I care for noise and bustle; inwardly, I am solitary and sensitive. I liken myself to Don Quixote; I enjoy self-deprecation and prefer to create through a lens of absurdity and playful irony—qualities that are palpable in many of my works.
Art ought to be free. It should not exist solely to express "beauty"; rather, we can express lightness, wit, ambiguity, childlike wonder, solitude, freedom, pain, darkness, or even repression. As the times evolve rapidly, art, too, must evolve; we should constantly embrace the new. Our aesthetic sensibilities—and the very perspectives through which we view art—must also advance; we should not remain anchored in the past.
