At the time, I didn't know what art was all about and I was just curious about the similarity between my parents' faces and the pen drawings on my lined notebook paper but since then, drawing has changed almost every aspect of my life. I use my drawings to express my challenges - both within myself and those I encounter in the outside world.
From the very beginning, I was drawn to making self-portraits using different mediums and they remain the dominant theme of my work. I concentrate on myself not only because I've been alone since I was a child, but also because I can most intimately and comfortably delve into my own self.
Initially, I was captivated by the torso, and then by the complete life-size human figure. Throughout, I remained my own model. With passing time, I changed the background enveloping the figures from colour pencil hatched surfaces to an entirely titanium white background of raised fingerprint-like texture.
Recently, I have been working in clay and stone. I've been creating demons I believe are part of my very being. However, I have been ignorant of their existence and their nature. Now I am trying to rediscover them, familiarize myself with them as well as face them by giving them shape and form.
My subjects have always been things that I have been previously ignorant of within myself. Every time I work on them for the first time, the fear of the unknown invades me. I try to face the fear and go beyond it - through artful introspection, I struggle to shape the frightening chaos that lies within me into a kind of personal order.