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I started writing poetry very young, just kind of scribbling in notebooks not knowing that I was expressing my unconscious poetically. I’ve always dabbled at expressing in images, but not until very recently did I discover a medium through which I could more clearly express my inner poetry and prose without words. I love digital imaging. I would have never made a traditional college artist.

The finger cramps from the scissors alone were enough to dampen the fire of expression for me, but with digital manipulation I relax and the creative process flows. It has a rhythm for me that somehow matches my natural cadence similarly to the way my synapses fire when I write well. When I find or capture an image that inspires me I feel like my visual cortex is being tickled, and a spiritual thing happens for me in which I blend emotionally with what I perceive.

The grace and beauty of the male nude is often my inspiration, and I do not shy away from making blatant sexual statements in my work. Sometimes the energy I feel is what I try to express, as opposed to interpreting form in a literal system as metaphor or parody; often though, the opposite is true. In the end my goal is to produce images that produce a visceral, and then perhaps an intellectual response based on the subtext I see in the originating image or images.