Artist's Statement With my painting practice, I merge what surrounds me with what is within me. Air, lights, times, energy, dimensions, and objects make up the former and dreams, memories, habits and feelings make up the latter, resulting in a painted surface filled with symbolic and abstract images. These images are constructed with colors, textures, emotions, and energy. They are made out of oil paintns, meduim, and brush and palette knife strokes. They transform into lights, dimensions, profundities, and vitalities when successfully united through artistic spiritality. United, they make a song of my mind.