Ecce Homo
2000

A show is a private moment made public, an intimate space made collective. Through an image world, illusion meets reality and deception may reveal truth. My work is an affirmation of my belief that we will find truth if we thirst for it, attain freedom if we acknowledge our disillusion, and experience our divinity if we embrace our humanity. My art questions, striving to offer insights but seldom presenting answers in a world where neither knowledge nor ignorance is absolute.

My paintings need your participation. I believe they are about your journey as well as mine. I hope they will engage you in a dialogue. When you enter this exhibition, you enter my solitude. Around you are traces of a wayfaring soul. My art is my search incarnate. It records my struggles to understand the polar roles in life of Good and Evil, Love and Lust, Hope and Despair, Creativity and Madness, Essence and Absurdity.

Art is confrontation, not escape. My art does not create a romantic ideal nor construct a realm made of poetic imagination or subjective reverie. It is art for life's sake. It creates a reflection of an objective reality that lives between the personal and the collective and captures a refraction of an actuality that vibrates between the internal and the external. To better understand Man, my work questions both the sacred and the profane, and my iconography does not spare universal icons or consensus symbols. Religious beliefs, political thoughts, social issues and psychological analyses become fields of examination and dispute, tools for dissertation and inquiry and the very dialectics of life's polarities. My work is a battlefield, not a peaceful garden. Here you witness fire and ash, light and smoke. Do not stop searching if a context offends you as scandalous. If you go beyond appearances you may uncover traces of your own probings and findings.

What can my work offer to you? What will you take from it? Will you find it unsettling rather than entertaining? Your search will color your perception, and your interpretations may reveal new insights for all of us. Ecce Homo.