My work is centered around my inner dialogue and is self-referential. In the last couple of years, my practice has extended beyond painting and into the realm of drawing. Though both are starkly different in their compositions and approach to abstraction, both practices attempt to communicate through a visual language. My paintings explore the capability of communicating through color, texture and movement.  I thin down my oil paints and create a succession of layers, wet on wet paint, blending vigorously, opening palettes up on the canvas itself. Intuitively, I push my brush and rag around creating forms for the colors to live and bleed through. My process involves the movement of the body, expressing physical movement as painterly gestures on the canvas. Emotions, and nostalgic notions inform my practice and become the basis for my paintings and drawings. Transient scenes from memory are woven into my work, as I strive to draw a bridge between my experiences and the emotions present at the time. Much like my paintings, my drawings are emotion based and rely heavily on movement. I approach my drawings in two different, yet distinct ways. I investigate movement, choreography, and performance, and how the body itself can be used as the tool to translate thought and emotion into drawing. Among this chaos I introduce repetition, in that I use a repertoire of symbols and forms to create a language which I build my composition upon. My paintings and drawings have come to live symbiotically in my mind, and while they consider a conversation with the viewer, they are ultimately me talking to myself.