Testimonials
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“The thing that first impressed me about your art is having it's own distinct look. Some of the work can be construed as being mysterious and surreal yet very abstract at the same time. The scenes seem familiar yet strange. I truly enjoy looking at Nactobarb, which I have hanging in my den. When I have visitors I can see their eyes immediately drawn to that painting. I like collecting art for the way certain paintings put you at ease. Some, such as your painting Nactobarb, keep you guessing at the type of scenery and not leaving you with the answer but with a question mark. Good luck and I hope to be looking forward to more of your clever works.”
Michael Sedita
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“I have two of your works. Rhyzpod Xylzoa and Viridescent Code. Rhyzpod Xylzoa reminded me of a deconstructed Goya’s The Colossus, sad lost, and torn apart. I thought Viridescent Code looked like what Monet would paint in Giverny, if Monet were a character in Ghost in the Shell, dreamlike, fluid and dystopian.“
Miller Flynt
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“The first thing I felt when I saw your work was lucky. The different pieces were colorful and hypnotic. I couldn't believe I got an opportunity to find and buy one that I really enjoy.
Your work takes me in and out of different worlds, places, and beings.”Clifford Scott
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“To me, your work feels like a window to the unknown. It often reaches that bliss point between complete abstract and something I can make out. It’s the ‘almost’. Sometimes I feel like that about my life. Like I can see it play out vaguely. Like I know myself enough to know where I’m going. But I can’t ever make it out. It’s that ‘almost’ again. I think that’s what called me to your work, I felt understood.”
Katja Muller
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“The way I experience the drawings is sort of the paradox of a perceived harmony in chaos. It’s the many facets of an internal dialogue with ‘self’. There is an attempt to create structure with various patterns and blurred out borders but much like our internal world, it surprises, delights, and keeps us on the edge of our discomfort. The drawings allow the exploration of the notion of “both/and”. We can be both in a state of chaos and harmony.”
Genesis Hernandez
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“The drawings of yours I really appreciate have a push and pull between figural elements and abstractions that remind me of elements of cosmology, forces, etc that I know - something that can ground them in and relate the figure to the larger world/universe. A parallelism. Your best work creates a world with dimension (and I mean that in terms of its aesthetic structure) that pulls me in and causes me to care about that work and want to meditate on what I see. The aesthetic dimension of the drawings causing me to want to see into the spiritual dimensions you are attempting to represent that match your conceptual concerns.”
Daniel Johnson
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“You’re one of my favourite artists because your art inspires me and represents beauty, freedom and flow. Your work is aesthetically pleasing to me and the colours are joyful (beauty). There are organic features in your work that remind me of nature. I know you are in California and paint in some beautiful parts - it’s one of my favourite places that I will travel to again and again to explore so your work reminds me of this (freedom). And lastly, I can feel the flow in your work which is basically the state I’d like to be in always. These elements (beauty, freedom and flow) are important to me.
There is something else that I’m struggling to put into words. Like, there are beings in your work that come into existence through you. They are alive and they are what they are. There is no question. Just acceptance. They have the kind of wisdom that stars and mountains have.”
Jill Roxburgh
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“I find a lot of your work to be very utopian and an act of world building. It's a kind of utopia that allows for the full spectrum of life. I think of them as peepholes or portals that offer a glimpse into a landscape that exists both in bloom as well as decay. There is celebration to be found in both.”
Elisabeth Kuklenyik
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“Wondering how you see, and make choices of color and texture, and make objects appear to be floating and alive, and moving on the canvas. Your work is enigmatic, and mysterious, and seems to be emerging from nature. It's magical.”
Andrea Reynolds