I am a South Portland-based artist who does primarily drawings and paintings.

The work that I do is largely influenced by many visceral sources and subjects that explore my heritage, personal memories and the pop culture that extends beyond me.

I purposely make my most significant works prompt viewers to relate to modern contexts in juxtaposition of reimagining the different values in the passage of time. In this case, I like to imbue my work with symbolism in correspondence to contemporary themes like social class values and social dilemmas, consumerism, materialism, publicity, and power.

I do not intend my works to be the source of answers and to be proclamations that offer solutions. On the contrary, the intent I seek to serve with my works is to provide a sincere conjecture of culture based on my perspective.

My artistic process is often in flux between practices and methodologies.

I like to extend how different I can approach an idea given the circumstances of the time when I’m producing the work. In various situations I can feel greatly interested in exploring expressive forms from detailed renditions of subjects and vice versa.

In this case, I usually prepare my most complex works in advance before I get to work on them. I utilize a variety of references and sources to allow myself to study and influence my hand with the uttermost care and attentiveness. These works are grounded to detail the reimagination of life and find their place in the real physical world.

The other approach I take with my work is purely spontaneous and free from any thought during its creation.

In many instances, I allow my hand to intuitively make gestures and flow in motion to the space found within a piece.

I like to utilize a limited span of time to create a foundational base of layers for the initial part of the process, so that I can turn the piece in a variety of ways to form a vision for the composition, subject, and appeal.

Finally, I let the work develop itself with an assemblage of more lines and shapes that communicate freedom from its unrestrained nature. These works are fundamentally impulsive and usually nonrepresentational.