Drawings

I'm Free (13x18in, pencil and charcoal)

Portrait art throughout history has been used as a record of a person’s appearance. It has been used to show the beauty, wealth, and other qualities of the sitter. As an artist, I use portraiture as means to transcend the individual, and reaches across to broader psychological characteristics of humanity. It’s a portrait of recognizable traits above recognizable individuals, relatable and customized to the interpretation of the viewers. In I’m Free, those traits are that of wisdom, beauty, and self-knowledge. Here the observers might feel the obtainment of spiritual freedom, breaking free from the matrix of psychological life obstacles.

Hypatia (13x20in, graphite and charcoal)

Immortality (13x18in, graphite, charcoal, color pencils)

Every atom of water in our bodies was created by the Big Bang along with heavier elements from the heart of our stars. The constituents of our body and mind are immortal, moving through our environment and assembly into one life form after another, an essence of reincarnation. Particles are neither created nor destroyed, and perhaps there comes a time when all elements reach a new form of energy immortality. We are creatures of comfort, fearing changes, asking the whys, but that is due to our present state of mind, a mechanism of survival of our species to possess those qualities. We are all one in a process, one world, only separated by a small speck of time. It's the greatest gift, to be apart and to be together, and to exist in this moment in time against all odds of probability.

Glaze from the Past (13x20in, graphite and charcoal)

Edge of Humanity (13x19in, graphite and charcoal)

The Artist (12x17in, graphite)

What Lies Beneath (12x16in, graphite)