My introduction and first experience expressing myself as an artist started with my first high school photography class, where I learned the foundations of 35mm black and white film photography/development, which was fundamental to my world view and artist perspective.
At 16 I found myself homeless and began documenting and LA based artist named Aiseborn, and while documenting his mural work around the city, I became aware of the artwork ever present on the commercial edifices found throughout our cityscape. This is when I started to explore architecture photography for the first time; with a focus on the motifs found on the buildings I was studying. Pictures from this architecture series won me 3rd place in my first exhibition and competition at MOCA’s Teens of Contemporary Art night. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the ceremony because I was housed in a juvenile detention center at the time and had to be informed through other sources. Soon after leaving the juvenile detention center and winning 3rd place, I found myself attending California State Summer School for the Arts on Cal Arts campus, where I spent an entire summer taking collegiate courses and really finding myself as an artist. At 17 I was rewarded my first grant from the Inglewood Rotary and soon after, found myself in the Northern California/Bay Area region, where I’d say I found my clear-cut direction and expressive voice as an artist. And now back home in LA and the So Cal region, it’s here where I wish to allow this expression take a serious form and life, an artistic life of communal healing through the mingling of primitive artistic practices and application and viewer interactive art process. After my chaotic introduction to the world at large and the state of the general populations mental discord, I’m looking to create a spatial experience with my art as opposed to simply occupying wall space in a gallery, i.e. themed event’s where the gallery goer/viewer enters into a new space where they can glimpse into their minds own creative process, how their minds identify the world around them, and lastly their own state of full undivided awareness, purposely helping to leave the viewer with that much more of their unconscious self integrated into their everyday awareness and state of affairs.