The Imperfect Game
"I Can’t Do This Anymore. If I Don’t Confront My Demons I Will Never Know What I Can Be. I Don’t Want to Be My Own Victim Anymore. This Title I Must Accept." 2023, Wood, acrylic, watercolor pencils, dye, and color pencils on canvas, 28 x 22 x 1.5 in
"To Confront My Reality, or Keep On Feeding the Demons? I Must Take Responsibility, Start Again. What Are My Values? What Is My Purpose." 2023, Collage, wood, canvas, and color pencils on paper, 32 x 24 x 1.5 in
"Why Don’t You Look Towards the Chaos? It’s like a Storm. Peaceful When You Avoid It. Uncomfortable When You Confront It. But When It Rains, the Air Feels Like Purpose. Finally There Is Fulfillment." 2023, Wood, thread, color pencils, watercolor pencils, and dye on canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5 in
"OH LOOK! This Is Something New and Imperfect. It Feels Good. There Is Some Kind of Raw Spirituality Here. It Is Something for Me That I Can Build. It Feels Good. I Feel Liberated." 2023, Oil, colored pencils, clear gesso, and watercolor pencils on canvas, 14 x 14 x 1 in
"Here and Then Now. But Also, I Am Here in the Present, and Aware of the Now. What Do You See?" 2023, Thread, watercolor pencils, color pencils, and dye on canvas, 28 x 18 x 1.5 in
"From Caveman Painting to Plato’s Cave. I Must Respect My Ancestors. They Did the Work. I Must Now Do the Work They Didn’t Do. I Take Responsibility. Look Within." 2023, Color pencils, watercolor pencils, gesso, and oil on canvas, 16 x 12 x 1.5 in
"So Simple. No One Will Notice. Not Even Myself. I Don’t Know What My Inner Self Is...This Artwork Needs Something." 2023, Thread, dye, watercolor pencils, and color pencils on canvas, 16 x 12 x 5 in
"Could I Still Be an Artist without an Ego? Yes." 2023, Colored pencils and thread on paper, 26 x 19 x 1.5 in
"The Ego. To Understand. To Fight. To Confront. To Use. If I Want to Liberate, Control, and Heal My Self, I Must Digest the Ego." 2023, Thread, color pencils, watercolor pencils, gesso, and oil on canvas, 16 x 12 x 1.5 in
"My Art Making Became like a Perfect Game of Tennis. Art Is to Create a Problem and Then to Solve It. I Will Lose. I Will Win. I Will Persist. For the Love of Art Making." 2023, Thread, color pencils, watercolor pencils, gesso, and oil on canvas, 16 x 12 x 1.5 in
"The Universe Is within Me. Suns, Planets, and Blackholes. All My Cells Are Part of It." 2023, Colored pencils, watercolor pencils, gesso, and oil on canvas, 14 x 14 x 1.5 in
"CHAPTER 27. To Who Do You Pray and Why? God, Nature, Universe. I Will Ask For Guidance Every Morning." 2023, Thread, color pencils, watercolor pencils, and dye on canvas, 28 x 22 x 1.5 in
"Nature Will Guide Me. The Sun Will Come Up and I Must Follow It." 2023, Colored pencils, watercolor pencils, gesso, and oil on canvas, 14 x 12 x 1.5 in
"All Flowers Are Seeds of Life. Don’t You Want to Be That? Something of Life. How Am I Supposed to Be a Seed When I Keep Looking Outward. What Is Self Awareness" 2023, Dye, watercolor pencils, and colored pencils on canvas, 16 x 12 x 1.5 in
"A Ritual. I Will Elevate Nature to Another Perception. I Will Then Send the Viewer to the Outside World. So They Can See the Imperfections between Nature. Maybe Then We Will Heal." 2023, Colored pencils and thread on paper, 26 x 19 x 1.5 in
"I Thought about Tomorrow, but I Won’t Do It Tomorrow. I Will Greet This Day as If It Was My Last." 2023, Thread, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, and dye on canvas, 24 x 18 x 1.5 in
"The Spider Carries the Sun Inside. I Will Lose Myself If I Don’t Follow My Nature. No One knows Your Nature." 2023, Colored pencils, watercolor pencils, gesso, and oil on canvas, 12 x 12 x 1.5 in