I paint because I feel I am best able to express my ideas and thoughts through that medium. From the first time my brush touched a canvas, I loved everything about it: the smell of the paint, the way it glides over a canvas, the way color behaves when it’s mixed together. I found it to be an opening of a door, another way to communicate that had previously not been open to me. Painting as an art form is many things. To me, it is at its best when communicating ideas, feelings or opinions of the artist and that is exciting to me. This current series is an examination of transparency and vulnerability of the human condition. Despite attempts to hide fragility under excess consumerism or curated images presented to the world via social media, underneath it all, we are fragile and prone to breakage.