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My art is about the interplay between the image and the person looking about it. Any success I have is found there. I enjoy inventing characters and situations that surprise my viewers. I invent identities, histories, and symbolic loads for figures that may seem at once strange and familiar to my viewer. As I create a work, I engage it in a conversation. I tell the characters who they are and they in turn tell me stories. I imagine a similar process taking place between my other viewers and my work. Through this process, the more a person looks at the image, the more he or she can bring to and take from it. Key to the process is the craft of designing and drawing the image. My pictures have an immediate graphic impact and evince my work ethic. Color doesn't play a big role in my pictures, as I usually find it to be a distraction from the ideas and stories I am trying to tell. Charcoal is my favorite medium, because of the richness and sensitivity of tone it makes possible. My influences include Goya, Bosch, and Picasso, with touches of various illustrators. | |||
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