For many years I have been interested in creating work that explores "weighted" content within an accessible, yet provoking, visual dialog.

My vocabulary of visual language has grown from once employing solely the mundane and it's social connections to now encompassing everything that is produced or that has been created. This includes, but does not limit itself to, popular culture, consumerism and the fine and commercial arts. It is my belief that everything created has existence in each person’s consciousness and can therefore be acknowledged in some form to a great many people. My hope is to speak to this recognition or experience while manipulating and re-contextualizing its familiarity.

My production is influenced by a traditional, classical background and appreciation of art history, especially Pop, Minimalism, Fluxus, Surrealism and Conceptual art. Continually, it has been aesthetically and socially interesting for me to employ humble, understated and, often, playful materials. This has necessitated resourceful working methods requiring me, in a somewhat MacGyver-like way, to transform something mundane or craft-like into something that is effectively recognized, and therefore useful, visual vocabulary. These practical yet deliberate media choices have proved seductive to my own tactile desires while simultaneously critiquing standards, class and technology in contemporary art.

As a very young immigrant to California, assimilation was a culturally learned survival tactic that now serves my artistic practice well. The experience from an inherited culture is the only one I know and therefore is my source for executing ideas. A hybridization of values informs, confuses or enlightens how I view humanity. I like to take it all in, then strip away the unessential to consequently explore content that is "heavy" through both humor and pathos.