These new works balance between the beautiful and the grotesque, paying homage to many visual influences—street art culture, photography, mixed media, painting, and drawing. Moving in a new direction, the artist integrates graffiti style and urban culture with the technical precision, bold imagery and clean linear qualities of Japanese printmaking. The focus is on human behavior, specifically, relationships underscored by sexuality, social politics, cultural iconography, and symbolism. The artist’s ongoing fascination with man’s conflicted relationships with himself, society, and nature is what prompted the new series: Red Dawn.

This body of work is a return to earlier themes but, more importantly, it is an exploration of materials and techniques. At this moment the whole world is undergoing a season of extreme change, politically, socially, and culturally. It is under the pressure of this changing climate that the artist has expanded. Using a process centered in experimentation, the artist pushes through creative boundaries and doubts in pursuit of a more mature vision—keeping in mind that the journey is just as important as the destination.