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Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy.
Undeniably, art is not optional.

— Nathan Sawaya

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Swim against the current!
Follow your own path!
Find the courage within!

Create what you see.
Create what you feel.
Create what you have never seen.
Just create.

I carry a sketch pad with me wherever I go. Many of my works center on the phenomena of how everyday life, people and raw emotion are intertwined. I am inspired by my own experiences, the journeys I take and the people I meet.

My favorite subject is the human form. A lot of my work suggests a figure in transition. It represents the metamorphosis I am experiencing in my own life. My pieces grown out of my fears and accomplishments, as a lawyer and as an artist, as a boy and as a man.

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