The Universalist Project

All my life, I have been an artist, ever-thirsty for exploring, sharing, and making new discoveries.  In the midst of creating my art, I began to gather a collection of ideas to bring something new to art. This became a lifelong project, Universalism.

I have always utilized my own life as a medium in my art, using my own journey to punctuate and hopefully illuminate the journey for us all.  I have always felt a strong, inherent responsibility to others to create experiences, such as I have had whether due to my mental illnesses or spiritual experiences, awakening us to something higher than what we know, or who we think we are.

I approach my canvasses as if they are open windows that anyone can look through to see into another world. The intention is for the viewer to see so deeply into the painting, that eventually, the line of sight reconnects with the individual.  This is to bring about a unique, all-encompassing experience which not only heightens the personal notion of “self”, but increases the concept of oneness or coconsciousness through the merging of worlds. Through exploring a compendium of subjects on one visual plane at a time, we enter wholly into the pursuit of finding ourselves, remembering where we came from, and discovering what we mean.