I feel art is about a person’s connection with a piece, the emotions and memories, conscious or unknown from this life or another that are briefly unlocked. That which can’t be seen haunts and intrigues me. I try to make some sense of it through painting and researching but it only digs a bigger hole into the abyss of esotericism for me. In the past year I have moved from painting in a more realistic style in oils to painting with acrylics and drawing on top with water soluble wax pastels. The freedom that erasing the wax pastels without damaging the under painting has given me has allowed me to explore a whole other world of dreamlike figures and distortions of life drawings that I may not have otherwise given myself permission to do so.