My work seeks to create a space for personal breakthroughs to take place and to promote those who inspire change. My interest in a person’s backstory and curiosity in how they envision their future are what fuel my artistic work. I hold to an idea that there is something yet to be realized in different parts of our lives. In collaborating with others, I start with vagueness and eventually get to a place of clarity. This is done through interviews as well as building and painting life-size scenic designs to use for multiple photoshoots of the individual(s) during different stages of completion. These photos will then be used as source material for “disrupted” representational oil paintings. What may be hard to articulate sometimes surfaces through the act of making art.
My work situates itself between the influences of todays leading psychologists, personal development coaches, health experts, social entrepreneurs, artists, and critics. My paintings currently examine how managing difficult feelings through the path of avoidance or awareness directly relates to a person’s confidence, resilience, and authenticity. As a middle-age man, husband, and father who decided to go back to college to get my BFA at Laguna College of Art+Design—themes of unfinished education appear in my unfinished paintings.