As a child I found whenever I picked up a piece of paper and a crayon it was magical. It would transform. Worlds would open up. As I grew up I also discovered words to describe what I was doing and how my creations fit in the scheme of things. I learned that these images and the associated dialog would not only describe but would help them transform the objects and in turn myself. I learned that they can do the same for anyone who chooses to enjoy the arts with a serious passion. Everyone benefits from the Arts. I learned that Art and Humanities can change the world this is what drives me. I want to help the community, the nation and the world to grow from the re association with the Arts. And what fascinates me is that the arts coupled with words could not just describe but could transcend time and space. I know it sounds far fetched but every world class artist regardless of the genre, regardless of place and socio-economic background knows this to be true, Art is Boundless, it escapes politics nature, time, and gravity.

I believe this is exactly what our predecessors were also trying to show us. I believe in the modern world it started with Impressionism. During the period of Impressionism artists took their freedom and at great risk created images that were not "real" but simply impressions of the world, bits of color and bytes of shapes all representing objects where the result was something the world had never saw and were not immediately ready to receive. They created something new, a new way of seeing and more importantly and new way of creating, less constrained. Few times in history do things really change. I believe this was like opening Pandora's Box and once open the changes moved fast. Within 100 years the artists following the Impressionists shook every art theory and associated algorithm to its core and along the way they affected Music, Science and the world as we know it. This is not to say they were  the leaders but certainly participants. Creativity poured out of the box. It was a conscious awakening that spread throughout the modern world. And it still goes on today. It has had ups and downs as well. The low point I believe being paintings that are completely white. Other times they challenged our senses with garbage strew across the floor. I don't pretend to be an art historian I prefer poet so you can check the details on your own. I am sure others are more eloquent the point is we live in a golden age where artists can really make a difference on a large scale.

To achieve artistic mastery I sought to find my own voice. Even though creativity and a lack of constraints is what I sought I was careful to create limits for myself. Without my internal guiding light there would be no reason to seek to create more art. In the modern world painting is no longer the movies of the ancients so in order to be relevant it needed to move beyond the realism which is more convincingly achieved by a camera and with far less effort to center my attention on adding my own artistic value to images and illustrations. My inner voice needs to tell stories. And my sensibilities were such that I loved the craftsmanship of objects, as well as the surface.

I have many favorite artist's, Marc Chagall because he allowed people and animals to fly, ungrounded by nature, poetically. Pablo Picasso cause he put the heads of bulls on men as if they grew up this way then he let them roam into a world of sex and violence. Salvador Dali who took super realism and applied it to a kind of "Alice's in Wonderland " doorway of unbelievable realms complete with melting clocks and distant ships flying above the waves, while the expression surrealism was coined along the way. I especially like Michelangelo because, his took a block of marble and created David, and another one and created Moses and for an encore the entire ceiling of the 16th chapel with images equate with my image of G-d and the prophets and the best part is his parents saying "We don't want you to be an artist".