When I was a child, I was fascinated with the concept of art and played with markers, crayons, paper, and foil to see how they worked. As time passed, I was obsessed with the materials around me and kept experimenting with the way they blend and bend into new visuals and physical structures. Eventually, I developed a hobby that helped me refine my previous understanding of art and made my own artworks. After spending time in art classes in both my previous community college and my current time in San Jose State University, they helped show me more artistic techniques in sketching finer details and how to control my brushing in painting. It was rough at first, seeing other students around me having a better grasp in what they're putting on their papers while I struggled to stray away from my primitive way of producing my work. Littered with uneven proportions and flat areas that needed shading. But for the last three years I finally got some proper control over my artwork and now given the opportunity to debut my work to the public.

I wanted to see if I could replicate whatever I'm imagining and bring them into physical form to the best of my abilities. And as I continue to test my progression as an artist, I take whatever works and integrated them into my newer projects. From my early developments as an amateur and over- ambitious artist with too many ideas with very little time who was struggling to discover my style in the artist world, to someone who has slowly found his footing in the present day and continuing to progress into more experimental designs of what I was familiar with.

The practices I've used to make these paintings were simple, a small toolset of paint brushes, two cups of water to help clean off the paint left on the brushes, and a single painting canvas. Depending on how big I want my canvas, I sometimes go over the ones I currently have with me and think to myself: “what would be the most functional size for my ideal design”. The meaning behind my paintings come from aspects of my personal view of the world, and to see where I'm currently at and try to improve myself from that error. When I have everything ready, I create whatever is currently festering in my head that helps me explore my “creative vision”. The meaning behind each of my work acts as a slow step up to what I was before, from the shadings to perspectives, to focusing the important design element from the origins of where I got the shots for inspiration. One of the best examples of this is my trip to Arizona, or my collage live painting class that helped me focus more on the shades and other small details for the human body to have more dimensions. Those help me gain a greater perspective to where I'm currently standing as an artist. And even to this day I've still got more to learn, even after finishing my “Magnum opus.”