My paintings and prints focus on the concept of the body’s form and its existence in the world. I concentrate on the relationship between the human body and the nature in which we live, including animals. I have explored the relationship by looking at the interior verse exterior of the body that makes up our existence, such as physical nature, bones, muscles, ligaments, figures, as well as both endangered and extinct animals.  I am also interested in combining the aspect of travel into my artwork by looking at the differences and similarities among cultures throughout the world, particularly among organic substances or of images associated to symbolic and oriental designs.
 

My four-month study in Florence, Italy continues to have a major impact on my artwork. The historical sculptures that I passed by daily on my walk to class or dinner has inspired my interest in the antiquity of the human form. It has also impacted my interest on the direct historical processes of the oil painting as a material and printmaking where I enjoy exploiting many processes such as aquatint, chine collé and lithography.
The motion, movement, and bodily routine of both humans and non-humans are more similar than we all seem to think. My artwork draws subject matter from highlighting these physical movements. I am inspired by the personality and mood that a figure exudes through certain positions and the ways in which any sort of life can inhibit exterior and interior spaces throughout the world that we tend to overlook.