As is the case with my art and many other things in my life, I have never been one to follow the beaten path. I’ve always lived on the fringes, despite my many efforts to conform, which was at first very isolating but as I’ve gotten older, it has become more liberating. I’m not so concerned with acceptance, especially where my art is concerned. I create what I love and what I love are indigenous cultures, the natural world, and anime. I think the most influential of these is anime because it pulls from the traditional world but puts its own wildly fantastical spin on it. But it’s not always outrageous and ridiculous. Sometimes, a lot of times, what the genre offers up is odd, but beautifully-crafted and deeply spiritual (see Hayao Miyazaki) and that is something I seek to mirror in my own work. With regards to my method, I like to call myself a digital collage artist because I build images from shapes, most especially small circles. It harkens back to the days when I had limited means to create. Puffy paint was pretty much all I had to use and those tubes can be very messy. The most efficient way to create with them, I discovered, was one dot at a time. And over time, I fell in love with the method.

With LUNESME, it is very much inspired by my daughter, Luna Esme, whose name means "The Moon Loved." My first works for LUNESME really centered around the celestial. I think some of the most beautiful and mysterious and magical things happen in the dark, in the company of the stars and in the glow of the moon. Since then, LUNESME has evolved. There is still the night represented by the black and the illusion of shadows but my subject matter has grown to encompass more of my interests.