| What are your earliest memories related to art? | |
| 1st grade; drawing a car shaped as a triangle. | |
| How and when did you start becoming an artist yourself? | |
| It all started right after my b‑day on Jan 2011. I didn’t want to say, “I never took a shot at creating professionally.” | |
| What was the evolution like toward finding your current voice and visual vocabulary? | |
| Looking back, there has always been an element of forms in my earlier work. Used the Trompe-l’œil technique when painting pop-art items (Claes Oldenburg is a major influence) or themes. Then slowly moved to abstract geometric form paintings and eventually to sculping with wood. Long-term goal is to move to metal and create for outdoor sculptures. | |
| What is your process like? | |
| It’s a pretty organic process for myself: I usually get an idea from a movie or music. Sketch out the idea and determine the scale, but once I start mocking up the sculpture, there is no plan. Most of the time, the finish product doesn’t resemble the sketch. | |
| Is there anything from your artist statement that you wish to expound on, that you normally don’t have the chance to discuss? | |
| I purposely want my work to bring in my sense-of-humor; something light and airy. Bold colors to help brighten the viewer’s perspective and hopefully a smile. | |
| What do you try to control in your surfaces, and what do you leave to chance? | |
| 5% planned and the rest to chance. | |
| Where do you see your work going from here? | |
| Bigger and outdoors (move to metal) | |
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