My work explores the synesthetic, non-verbal communicative power that the visual arts share with the performing arts, especially music.

Music and dance have clear analogs in the visual arts: rhythm, repetition, improvisation, melody and harmony, and even syncopation.
The addition of color, texture, transparency, opacity, and the passing of time physically captured in visual media creates an environment in which each of these elements impacts the others, e.g., the addition of a shade of red makes it clear that additional gestural movement is needed to balance it in the composition.

The combination and interaction of these formal elements can communicate at a pre- and non-discursive level that is simultaneously more fundamental and more expansive than verbal communication. The writings of Henri Bergson among others explore the limitations verbal communication places on our understanding of the human experience, and it is precisely the communication and experience that lies beyond these limitations that I strive to explore.

I am largely self-taught after being forced out of my Bachelor of Fine Arts program during my senior year when the university I was attending discovered I was gay. Returning to school a few years later I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies/Arts Administration at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA followed by a Master of Business Administration at the University of California at Davis, USA. After working several years to support my artwork I am creating art full time.