As far back as I can remember, the arts have played an important role in my life. At a very early age, I recall venturing to art museums with my parents. As they would tell me, I would soak up visual information like a sponge.
Years later, something happened. I began to travel abroad. Immediately, my understanding of art and visual aesthetic changed. I no longer felt confined to certain boundaries, and I felt determined to pursue art through my own means of experimentation.
After a brief flirtation with realism and academic painting as a young teenager, I became more interested in free-flowing, expressionistic painting.
However, in recent months it has occurred to me that the above-mentioned style did not adequately satisfy my needs for spiritual expression. I felt the need to make a change through my artwork. That said, I am currently in a period of struggle, of curiosity, and of solitude, yet I am slowly beginning to see my true self to come to life in my work. My work in its most recent incarnation reflects my fascination with the innovations in figurative painting of the last 150 years, especially early Modernist painters of the fin-de-siecle.
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