Criss Cross Fish

Criss Cross Fish is a painting in reverse.

Underneath the surface of white are layers of translucent color. The fish are created by taking the colors away, which is common in my work.

Here, fish are forming in movement to where they're becoming one another, symbolizing Eternity.

Being a Cancer, refractions and reflections of color and images in the flow of water have always mesmerized me.

I worked to create movement in the calm colors of the fish, the way their forms grow into one another, glowing through the white, I want for the viewer to feel the hidden colors.

My paintings are invitations to an interactive communication with the viewer, where we meet halfway. I bring what I bring, and you bring what you bring, and together, we watch the colors evolve into a story.

I see my paintings as Personal Sanctuaries.

As a New Yorker, I'm most at home in a city filled with an overwhelming supply of new colors and sounds, rivers of faces to explore while walking down the street, all with their own unique stories. NYC is constantly evolving, and at the speed of light. Having lived in this overwhelming environment most of my life, I want for my paintings to be a place for the viewer to suspend time and simply Be with themselves, without distraction

That's where I'm coming from with my work.

I mean for my paintings to be useful and functional. To be a sanctuary of calm, where time ceases a moment. A place for viewers to get lost in, swimming in the colors and discovering new images.

The paintings are meant to be explored, They look different from moment to moment, evolving with the light. New images appear all the time, according to collectors who are living with them. The deeper you swim in the music of the colors, the more colors and images and words and faces and stories you will discover.

The way I paint the Tapestries, I stretch the canvas to the wall and while I'm applying layers of gesso, which acts as a foundation, I keep stretching the canvas by widening the nails.

Once the gesso gives the canvas structure, I remove all the nails except those on top, and begin to sculpt the canvas by folding and creasing it, and molding the edges.

This piece is raw pigment and oil, oil crayon, pencil, aerosol, and latex on canvas.