Painting is a time machine. It creates a portal to the past and the future and gives identity to the present. It is an emotional and psychic recording of awareness. Painting cuts out a piece of time and releases it into the time stream.

  When I’m painting I am no longer aware of time, it exists outside of my awareness.

  Painting is a type of meditation. A prayer. When I paint I leave my self and the world to become one with the act of painting. The painting really must paint itself.

 I have always been obsessed with stopping time and maybe that’s what led me to being a painter.

 My work comes from my sensations. I try to express them truthfully. I want to show the mystery of beauty, not what’s popularly beautiful but the enigma of beauty. The awe of being in creation.

  I create characters that are allegories, not symbols. A symbol is a recognized sign, an allegory can be made of anything that stands in for something else.

  The characters I create are beings morphing into machines. Dysfunctional. Non-Aerodynamic. Absurd. They are projections from my subconscious mind.