Milwaukee based graphic artist and fine artist / illustrator. Self taught, I have developed my style based on what attracts me artistically. I think of my art as visual hip hop. I simplify the forms, focusing on shape and color. My number one influence is abstract expressionism, after that would be pop art and street art. I like the idea of creating art for the sake of creating, primal; within, as the ancestors did thousands of years ago. My colors are inspired by latin America, Peru and the Andes. People like Basquiat, Keith Haring, Gauguin and Van Gogh have also greatly inspired my work. The actual color of an object is almost irrelevant. Colors have feelings, each one contains its own emotion. I try to marry the object to the color and understand that it is the simplest shapes that translates the deepest feelings.