One thing people have mastered is the ability to disguise themselves behind a facade, a mask they’ve created, to hide away any shred of ‘undesirable emotions. Locking these feelings away because it is seen as ‘weakness.’ It has, seemingly become, the social standard to keep one’s self hidden away from the peering eyes of the world for fear that they will be chastised for not meeting the standard ‘feel good all the time’ mood.

Through my art I want to translate raw human emotion into a metaphysical, untamed oeuvre that becomes something tangible, no longer hidden in the recesses of our minds.  My art doesn’t show generally happy or gleeful images because people aren’t afraid to feel those emotions. Those are things we know are real we have no fear of being happy. Smiles appear in our faces without effort; we don’t hide them away from the world. We’re actually encouraged to let these feelings out.

Those darker, undesirable emotions-the ones we tend to push down-sometimes feel as if they aren’t real because everyone hides them we don’t know if others feel it too. We put on a fake smile and nobody's the wiser. Eventually, though, all of that repressed emotion explodes out of us in a beautifully, chaotic demonstration of how our most unique ability can be the death of us.

I want to be able to communicate these feelings to others. I want to rattle people, stir something inside of them, make them reflect on themselves and others around them. I create something more than paint on a canvas; I want people to be able to feel my art deep inside of them, and let them know that they need not hide any more.