Artist Statement

I use the tools of childhood, while recalling and ignoring the formal theories I learned at school. Adult sober intellect drives my body to respond with childlike activity, forcing my self to recognize and follow the contradiction.

For me, making art is a visceral experience and a meditation. My abstractions are born of thoughts that come to me through the day, usually at first awakening. Often the thought is simply a line or a negative space that I choose to follow with my hand.

When I'm drawing with pencils and crayons, I work very aggressively, listening to frenetic music, grinding and sweating, drawing with both hands, sometimes tearing the paper. When I'm painting I slow my heart rate, tone down the music, just groove to the feeling.