Art and music was always a motivator and a release for me. I attended Cleveland Institute of art and transferred to an affiliate school, the Philadelphia College of Art, receiving my degree in Painting and Printmaking. I received my Masters in Painting/printmaking degree from Tyler School of Art and remained in the Philadelphia area for the next several years, eventually moving back to Ohio.
As a painter I began utilizing the camera as a means to accumulate images which I then could intermingle, juxtapose and open a narrative that was emerging within my abstract work. Many of the collaged photos were intriguing on their own and had no need to be further interpreted into a painting: The works became the end not the means. Contrary to the notion of photography as truth, a facsimile of life, synonymous with objectivity and the concrete, I became interested in its artificiality, and it's broken ambivalent narratives. Successful work is dependent upon its ability to morph into and dissolve out of the fabric of its own making. Memories are at best fragmentary, re-emerging in varying forms and meaning.
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it “ — Gabriel Garcia Marquez