artist statement:

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Staying in first person here, during my time at UCF I was fortunate enough to be a teaching assistant under the late Walter Gaudnek, before graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts and Emerging Media Management.

My pieces are inspirationally downstream from the talents of artists like Édouard Riou, Gustave Doré and Franz Roh- especially on the subject matters which their skills were employed to express.

Lately I've been reducing elements to just light and shadow, which although narrows visual contrasts also deepens them. I try to make things from an exclamatory basis, not an ornamentative one, because it's expressivity- not decoration, that heightens art to the fulfillment of its stature.

My process is a sort of inward cartography that gives form to motifs roiling around in pre-conscious space, and to me, the most paramount aspects to creating are sensitivity and refinement.