​With the work I’m developing under my Plight series, I am particularly taken aback by caustic human behaviors and the climate crisis. About a million species of animals and plants are threatened today to go extinct(According to the global assessment released in May of this year). This threatens the livelihood of food crops, marine fisheries and life on the planet as we enjoy today. Click HERE to see more works from the Plight collection.
 
Earth’s climate is changing because the planet is loosing its ability to deal with CO2. Methane gases produced by grazing animals, industrial waste and human excessive consumption are the drivers of our current climate crisis.
 
As an artist, I do feel that one of my responsibilities to you and to society, is to contribute towards opening the dialog and bringing awareness of things that matter. This really matters!

​I do wonder if we will only be left with virtual animals and plants for coming generations.  I feel lucky to have enjoyed the world as I have, but feel horrible for the planet I’ll leave behind once I am gone.
 
Endangered animals are a focus in this series. Each painting speaks to specific plights. Plights I have focused on so far include: monarch butterflies, large, wild cats, turtles, penguins, elephants, giraffes, Grevy’s zebra and artic polar bears. 
 
​My aim is to make you think a little bit about what active role you have or can have to help steer extinction in a different direction. More fauna and flora plights will be covered as I work through this series.
 
Among many sources I use for research, the WWF, is one I follow closely.

On a side note, I use acrylic and inks and never really have an exact plan of how each painting will turn out. I start with the animal I have chosen, start drafting its silhouette and slowly start flowing with what I’m seeing to get a composition.
 
Colors often are based on the issue* I am dealing with  [climate crisis brings in a lot of reds and hot colors*]. As I bring in color, I continue to flow, looking for textures and glow. When the painting “speaks” to me I know I’m done. Until that happens, it’s an ongoing battle between me and the painting.
 
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​It seems that on a daily basis, news surrounding climate crisis, natural disasters, species extinction, social-political upheavals, etc  weaves into all our lives.
 
Life is busy, fast paced and noisy and unless we take stock of our own emotional pulse, we may just keep going and going and before we know it, we collapse.
 
With my commentary series I take an emotional approach to current events. I focus less on the facts like in my other works and more on where my thoughts are and how I negotiate life along with them. To see more works from this series click HERE
 
Collages fuse acrylic, inks, recycled plastics, papers, fabrics and found objects. Compositions, textures and colors are laid out purposefully to try and convey my sentiments and observations about a particular current event.   
 
What do you do to allow yourself to release your emotions about issues that enter into your life?  


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Let me first start by defining at·ten·u·ate
Verb gerund or present participle: attenuating /əˈtenyəˌwāt/, 1.reduce the force, effect, or value of.  I define this body of work as Attenuating. I feel it’s quite fitting, as through this work, I take the hits that daily news/information overload and life throws at me loud and clear, and sift it through different steps. As I create each work, I literally take the information I want to focus on and break it down into small bits. Those bits get “plugged-into” the work as I develop it through its layers. In the end every bit has been dealt with and is in a safe, discernible place

​We live in a world full of “noise”. Information overload seeps into our daily lives, often infusing chaos and influencing decisions we think we have under control. I tend to compartmentalize to filter and reduce the amplitude of noise, keep some sense of order and let things run their course.  Ultimately, my aim is to find sanctuary for thoughts. How about you? How do you keep your thoughts staright?
 
This work attempts to negotiate between the idea of independence of mind with the overwhelming dependence on technology and cyber life.  ​See work from my Attenuating Collection HERE

I use Geometry to give compartmentalize and give some sense of structure to my thoughts about the information I am focusing on.

The line drawings, symbols and colors I use come from my personal icon collection developed over the years.
 
The color gold indicates a presence of some sort of divine origin. Blue is intensely healing. Red is powerful and lets me be direct. Color makes me happy. Color has always been in my life in a big way.

As for the symbols, many of them come from the Phoenecian alphabet which is likely the ancestor of the Greek alphabet, hence of all Western alphabets. I always spell words when I use those symbols. I also incorporate my own personal symbols. The use of binary code represents a “filter” and denotes the question or premise I begin my work with. It also spells the title of the piece. The binary code is present because it is the base language of all computers. Without it, computers don’t happen. As you know, computers are everywhere and in our lives on so many levels. The overwhelming mass urbanization of the planet is happening “thanks” to computers. 
 
How much is technology influencing  your life and  filtering how your life is being experienced?
 
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