Artist's Statement
Visual Art is a language, if you want it to be. I've hoped, in the past, to convey very specific emotions and ideas with specific combinations of images. Now, I think the variables that come into play make certain combinations appropriate for some purposes, but not for all. Ordinary objects can constantly have different emotional presence, and sometimes people are scarier than monsters, if only for being more complex. I work with a .05 mm mechanical pencil, ink, and colored pencil, and am beginning to paint.
The earliest inspiration i can remember was Stephen Gammel, who illustrated the popular Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark series. Later on, comic book artists Sam Kieth, Jhonen Vasquez, Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin well as the illustrator Edward Gorey. Painters such as Rene Magritte, Theodore Gericault, Caspar David Friedrich, and the sculptures of ancient Greece also are great sources of inspiration, but more often than not, primarily i am inspired by music.
