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Inspiration comes for me from seemingly disparate directions converging and diverging at once---metaphysical naturalism, collective actualization, memes, mirages, simultaneity, anthropology, rock music, role playing, corporatism, symbology, and cyclic history included---coupled with the belief that individualism is often a futile attempt to separate oneself from the abosolute singularity of Nature.

My early paintings focus on the fundamentals of color, composition, line, and surface, and use abstraction as a vehicle for creating atmospheric emotion. Reflections on the individual experience. But later, while touring, living, and creating with an underground rock band, feelings of tribalism and self-preservation manifest themselves. With that came the development of visual language and symbology particular to my experiences and urges, and the use of some figurative elements.

That language has been coupled with sets of more complex conceptuality aside from linear systems I have used in the past to translate or transfer ideas into images. Conceptual associations which maintain a focus on elemental dynamics and the use of color to manipulate visual energy, but which also suggest a sense of narrative between elements in an image and between images themselves.