An artist statement or statement of purpose is something I have had much difficulty contextualizing into a purpose. Purpose, something that all people want to know when it comes to your work. What is the purpose of your work? Why do you do that thing you do on the canvas? Is there a reason for why you chose that subject or material? The answers are quite simple; I do not have a reason. I can not give a reason to why I do many things in my work, other than they feel comfortable and they feel right.

You don't ask a basketball player why he shoots free throws at the three point line. You don't ask him why he takes the right side of the court more than the left. Same with other professions - you don't ask a professional at internet poker games why he prefers the keyboard over the mouse. Or why he goes to one site and not the other on certain days. My works statements varies from piece to piece, day to day, hour to hour, and even on what I am feeling like that day. In order for work to be relevant there has to have some underlying meaning. But, does it? Really? I question that logic. For me an idea is an idea, an image is an image. Why cant my images just be something for the viewer to enjoy?

But, in case someone happens to wonder why my work is what it is, let's just say it is not a want but a need. Diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome as a kid I would organize things over and over. I would count objects in the room obsessively. I would check and re-check objects over and over. I would box my math problems in their own space on the page. I would box objects in their own little cubicles. Then, I was introduced to comics by my mother so I would start reading. I read them, but I was interested in the art work. I liked the cartoons and the superhero muscles, and I wanted to draw like that. So, from time to time I would draw comic characters. And I never gave them a second thought. High school came along and I started to participate in sports, mainly wrestling. Then high school ends and there's no more wrestling, no more drawing, and no outlet.

This is when I take art courses and going to the gym. Pretty soon I graduate from an art school. I get a job and quickly find out if I don't go to the gym or work on some art pieces I become really irritable, frustrated and reclusive. This realization baffled me for just as addicts need their fix. I need my art. It is not a matter of my love for art or that I make art because it makes me happy. If I don't make a work, or paint or do anything art related, all those Tourette's symptoms come back. I start obsessing over the mundane such as did I put that paper in the folder, or is that address correct, check it three times to make sure, then check it three more times to see if you are correct? Perhaps, that is why I do what I do. This reflects in my work too; spontaneity, repetition of themes, childhood fantasies of cartoon art and humor.