Later
on, as I was coming up, I would do portraits, landscapes, still-life’s.
Pretty pictures. I felt like I was just duplicating nature. I wasn’t
exploring my feelings, my thoughts. That’s when my abstracts started
coming out. Most of them carry some kind of figurative. You always see
faces or hands or arms or body parts, even in the abstract.
For
instance, this is the invitation I sent out (for the show). I did this on
9/11 and when I drew these things I don’t have the slightest idea…I
have a feeling, but sometimes you have a lot of feelings in your head. I
even look at them (the work) and want to say Jesus, what was I thinking? (Laughs)
Is this a nightmare?
When
I finish, I start analyzing. I analyze a lot of my things and I don’t
understand it. Some people say we are connected to the Universal mind or
Superconsciousness. This is evidence, and I could show you boxes of it.
I
take all these things…I watch the news, I hear people and the way they
relate to each other. This (art) is my therapy. If I take all this in and
do nothing, I would go bananas. I put it on a canvas or a sculpture or
something and I let it out. I think this is what saved me life…being
able to let out all the things I would otherwise bottle up inside.
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