About The Artist

"If you don't create your reality you are condemned to live in someone else's". Art is an externalization of the struggle to rationalize and give form to something that is not understood. Like an oyster, the artist is driven to externalize this conflict into the image of a pearl. Art should be appreciated through a viewer's intercourse with the work, allowing the image to speak for itself and not be prejudged by society's academic paradigms. This concept has close parallels to techniques first acquired in childhood, such as the ability to stare at clouds and see recognizable images arise and fall in the mind’s eye out of what initially was perceived as chaos. This technique of letting a work speak to a deeper self than the superficial mind involves the viewer in the creative process, their imagination evolves the artwork to another level. The work is no longer stationary but part of a wave as is nature herself.