The best way to describe my most recent work is that it exists in the tension between two realities: the physical and metaphysical. To begin, I use abstract yet recognizable physical representations to allow the viewer to be grounded in the tangible.  Rich colorful palettes are incorporated into the work in order to aid in this level of aesthetic comfort, and to entice the viewer into further investigation. 

It is then, after the viewer is submerged into this seemingly safe visual narrative, that a discourse of a conceptual paradox is engaged.  The viewer is taken out of their comfort level and upon further reflection, undertones of isolation, somberness, brutality, death, and destruction emerge. With subtle yet dramatic tension, each work represents the anguish and deprivation of man, be it his or her own, or that which we inflict on others. It positions the viewer into seeing the object and the subject as ubiquitous, and the ability to reject or ignore the cruelness of existence even in the face of beauty is no longer possible.