Iam thrilled by the idea of beauty; by the artist’s quest to reach or to create the beautiful. I am in awe with beauty but I am likewise in awe with the irony of beauty... which speaks to the fact that in my work I have often had to defend the somewhat strong “aesthetic quality” of my art. In other words, when faced with the omnipresent act of balancing social relevancy and artistic sensibility, I have opted to stay true to my vision and produce work that presents an honest picture of how my understanding of beauty is influenced by artists whose work and artistic credo I admire.
Building emotional truth through a strong sense of color, I maintain that my task as an artist is to create beauty. The rest is politics and theater.
