Art for me is a reaction to the accumulation of experiences. It is a visual language of how I communicate and make sense of the world around me. It is formatted to record the human experience called life. One of the ways in which my work investigates life is by focusing on dichotomies. When focusing on dichotomies, this division is essential to my art, and it is done with a conscious deliberation dividing the work into at least two sides of the story. For I see the dichotomy as coexisting, one dependent upon the other, and both essential for the success of the meaning that I want to portray. For how could one ever really know hope without despair, or tell a story of the nauseating sickness of loosing love without first describing what it was like to have tasted it? Even though the two divisions coexist within the art, there are still clear differences between them. For these reasons, I offset both divisions in my work. It is a balancing act, however, since they are codependent. One division cannot overpower the other; otherwise, the content becomes one-sided. In my art the road is clearly defined, but the choice on which half of the road to travel still lies with the viewer. My art exists always in the present, while recalling the past, and looking toward the future. It is metaphor in which a story is told, where the “like” or “as” is the cultivation of understanding.
