Featured Work:
As I experienced employment as a professional Digital Graphic Designer, working full-time and overtime; I struggled to find time to paint especially the themes and approach I wish to paint- candid people and montages. I felt my life was not fulfilled; absents of a paintbrush in one hand and a pallet with paint in the other. Therefore, I recognized some soul-searching was needed. Therefore, I reminisce through my photo collection and art collection. I found I enjoyed taking pictures of the sea and the sky. As for my search through my art collection, I found a painting from my early studies (at MCC), the key to my harmonization returned; the work of art is on wood and made-up of acrylic paints, sand, string, and wood shims*; Furthermore, the image is rendered with strokes of a pallet knife, brush, and my fingertips; it illustrates the sea and a sand fence by the seashore. What is key to this visual, it originates from visualization. Visuals I have capture very so often, where picture resources are no more needed; Therefore, to some extent, the art is partially fulfilled, and so this is how my feature artworks evolved (2-series, 12 by 8 in., see medium above*). These feature works of art or fulfillment encompass a painting titled “Self-Portrait (centerpiece painting)”; the centerpiece marks a threshold between my two Seashore painting series. During my first series, I came to a realization; I recognized these paintings had tremendous meaning to life experiences therefore I felt I must visually illustrate my findings. My paintings are not only exhibiting the sea and seashore but in a metaphoric view the paintings are expressing, “ the Sea is composed of the same essentials in which we encompass in our existence.”- Painting “Self-Portrait” also explains my recognition, transcribe in the book seen in the lower right corner of the painting.