About

Artist Statement

I use a variety of different mediums to portray my visions as an artist, including metal fabrication, acrylic and watercolor paint, pyrography, collage, pen and pencil, digital drawing, and photography, but I intend to keep widening my horizons as I grow as an artist. My work tends to have the characteristics of paintings and drawings regardless of the medium in which I choose to work. Even in my sculptural work I typically choose to create 2-dimensional pieces that focus on line and binary forms, as well as minute details and experimentation with texture.
I often work with unforgiving mediums where mistakes must become part of the final product, requiring a careful design process and contemplative planning. I hope to draw the viewer's’ attention to the meticulous detail and thorough approach I take to reach the final products of my work, but sometimes my inspiration will also come from the material I’m working on itself, as well as the world and the people around me. Some contemporary artists that often inspire me are Chris Long, Josh Hernandez, Ed Fairburn, Rustem Gomez, and most recently David Moreno. Just like many of their aesthetics, my work often involves landscapes, portraiture, maps, and architecture, sometimes abstracted as I see fit. These are of course broad categories that make up most subjects, but I really try not to limit my subject matter or label myself as one particular kind of artist. These subjects give me endless material to explore, and these mediums allow me to continue hand making uniquely human works. I think that’s important in current times of “art” being made by artificial intelligence and mass production from machines.