My interests and background are eclectic; having been a student of drawing and painting since I was a small child, I have also worked as a professional dancer/choreographer, with video, and in digital arts. Rather than seeing these different fields as isolated and separate, I am interested in finding ways to combine these various modes of creative research together organically as concepts and interests take me. This manifests itself as an interest in the human figure as a main subject in my drawings and paintings, an exploration to combine visual art with choreography through projection and video, and to investigate digital techniques to create interactive or time-based works of art.
In addition to my artistic work I have had the opportunity to travel domestically and internationally a great deal in my youth. At the age of 17 I was awarded a scholarship to the United World of College in India where I lived for two years with youths from 80 different nations. This opened my mind in many ways, but it showed me the value of art as a means of communication across cultural and national borders. It also introduced me to a variety of aesthetics and styles beyond classical Western art. Continually, I look to artists from all over the world and all stations of society for inspiration. Some of my strongest influences include religious iconography, Islamic geometric patterns, Surrealism, Afro-Futurism, graffiti, Trompe l’oeil, clacissim, and Chinese traditional painting.