When I was in my mid 20’s, my schizophrenia surfaced and the agoraphobia, paranoia and intense hallucinations/delusions were only ever soothed by creating visual art. Since then, I have learned to distinguish objective reality from my own personal misinterpretations of the world around me and the intentions of the people around me. This was only achieved through self-expression. My symptoms are now totally in remission and I remain unmedicated. The process of designing and producing skewed and distorted presentations of our shared, collective existence, as well as my own self-representation, and the role that my being and my consciousness has to play in this universe is apparent in all of my art, and is at the same time the one thing that's healed my troubled mind.
What starts out as purely action based, gestural mark making soon evolves, almost of its own accord, into abstract depictions of myriad different people, places, ideas, concepts, all found in our objective reality or within my own consciousness. These objects are then complemented with written phrases, messages, sometimes simply with seemingly "random" letters and numbers (what may appear to be random to the viewer but which carry their own personal meanings to me, every character), in the end leaving the viewer only a sense of emotional complexity, vulnerability, and deep contemplation."
