I just cleared out almost all of my watch list because I have been terribly inactive on this account and the deviations were piling up to a depressing level. Actually, I will probably end up watching many of the same people again, but I feel like this account really needs a fresh start.

To those who've recently watched me: thanks a lot! Hopefully I will be posting more frequently on this account. There's quite a variety of work here. I'm curious, for what are you mostly watching?

Show at Truffles is still up until the holidays. I'm going to be helping them to find more artists to exhibit so if you live in the Eastern Massachusetts area, let me know.

Just a small update that my show in Milford, MA at Truffles has been extended, and they've agreed for me to make more pieces to fill the spaces of the few things that have sold. Seems like this might turn into a longer gig. I need to go there one afternoon and take some better photos of the works I didn't get to photograph before the show. It's nice to know my stuff is being seen relatively regularly.

I want to build a wall in the basement so I can start doing more large scale figurative work. I have a few more ideas for that and now that I'm doing my stock account =SenshiStock I have a free model. :3

Just a short note to say that I will be at the NYC devmeet this Sunday with my mum in law I am going to try to make a tee shirt with my avatars on it :3

Also, I have been invited by the owners to extend my show at truffles through August.

Just a small update over here to say that my opening this afternoon was absolutely wonderful. It took us about 2 hours to hang 20 pieces. I would say about 50-or-so people came, and I sold three paintings: Sanctity [link] Inside Joke [link] & Autumn [link]

That was just incredible. People responded really well to the whole show. I'm super happy. Can't fully express happiness. xD People had lots of kind words for Empathy I and Empathy II [link] as well as for Memory Suppressant [link]

There's actually three paintings that are in the show which I didn't get a good picture of. That's what I get for procrastination

I took a few photos after we set up. Sorry for the terrible compositions and blur, they were really quick snapshots

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I'm sure there will be more photos later. I will be sure to post the best ones

Well it's about that time. My show is next week and I need something to go on the wall explaining what the hell I'm doing. If you all would be so kind as to read this dribble over and let me know what you think, I would be much appreciative.

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I have always made art. Some of it is the usual: painted still life images with flowers and fruit, or a portrait of a mother and child. Still, the first art I ever made was created before I could communicate in many other ways. It was before I learned to use words to speak or write, and long before I learned technical skills in rendering realism on paper. I think I was probably about two-years-old.

Anyone with children in their lives knows the joys of crayons on the kitchen wall. Have pen, will scribble. For most children, playing with art is one of their earliest means of expressing themselves. I started to wonder: why have people, from the earliest of our known history, always made marks? Sometimes I think it was to tell a story or record history, but on some level I also think it has to do with self-preservation. Since a bit of yourself goes into everything you make, you are saying “I am here” with everything you do. In every job or activity we do, we leave our mark on our clients, our family and our surroundings. There’s something to be said for the basic instinct to create (or destroy), be it in art or any other field.

Many people say they don’t understand abstract art, or art that isn’t a picture “of something.” I think it is understandable to be confused at first since our culture is very advertisement and image heavy. Everything is about something: what to buy, where to go, what to watch. It’s nice once in a while to think a little less and just look at things.

While making this art, I wasn’t creating anything with strong intentions regarding the outcome. Most of it is all about play: going back to the natural instinct of my childhood when it was totally acceptable for me to color skin blue and hair pink, then drag a black marker across the whole thing and like it better that way. But I never had to explain my art when I was a kid. Now, people want to know what it means.

I’ve started to look at this art as an expression of intangibles. For example: what color is fear? If the sound of a car crash was a painting, what would it look like? There are a lot of intangibles in our lives. We have dreams, memories, feelings and thoughts that exist as real as the paper this is printed on, but sometimes they are hard to express. I like thinking about what these things might look like. When I make a non-objective drawing or a painting, I let it tell me what it is about. I make the marks and paint the colors intuitively, reacting to each new development as I go.

Then in the end, I can look at something I have made with the mature mind of an adult and say: what does it mean? What I see in these drawings and paintings might not be what you see, but the understanding of the work is based on our own personal perspectives. The titles of the work give you some insight into what I see in them. Hopefully, you can see something of yourself in them too.