I am just another 22 year old boy from Los Angeles. So much of what I know, do, and love are unoriginal. My parents are architects, and growing up in a close family, art was unavoidable. I dressed up as Da Vinci for a book report in second grade. The first time I went on a vacation where I didn't go to a museum or contemplate famous buildings was in college. Even now, my brain is wired for design.
I never thought I was interested in art in any capacity other than as a way to pass some time when Instagram got boring. Over the past five+ years of doodles, sketches, finished works and SO many pieces that I will never touch again or are lost to storage, I have learned the importance of ancient techniques as well as continued artistic experimentation.
My art is not Basquiat. It's not Warhol. It's not Kandinsky. It's not Lichtenstein. I make art with limited training, materials, and influences. What I hope to bring with my art is enough appeal to draw you in, enough banality to throw you away, and enough harmony to force another look every time you come back.
I am in a gap year between undergrad and law school. Art is not something I look to as a job. It's not something I ever want to do except via sincere emotions and unadulterated passion.
Lastly, I believe in the idea of the eternal recurrence. That I should live as if I will have to relive my life when I die over and over forever. It is a source of angst. It is a source of strength. But more importantly I am staking the most important thing any person has on this belief - my life.
This is why I am willing to spend time doing something that has seemingly so little value in my life. I take everything seriously. Every brush stroke that looks exactly how I wanted and every brush stroke that makes me want to quit. In the end the construction of art is a story of its own. And though it may be a waste of time for those who only want to read another heroic novel, or really need a tragedy. These stories are their own. Waiting to be read. Ready to be told. Telling you when to stop. And stopping when the story cannot be told on its own.