Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.
I view art as an inspirational tool.
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.