My objective in life is to stay honest with my motives in everything I do. I to want acquire enough knowledge to continually improve myself so I can apply it to the way I live. As an artist, I expect my work will reflect the information I obtained, so that it may be translated in my art.

In the next five years I plan to continue running my business while in graduate school, since I have come to the conclusion that my art and managing the lab can coexist, because both feed off of each other. The business enables me the freedom to not need to compromise my art, which keeps me honest about why I am doing it. The lab has always been part of my life and has enlightened me in more ways than one; not just as a business, it is also part my sister and father even though they are not presence physically in the world, I feel their presents there.

One of my goals with my art is to challenge my work to develop in graduate school through the guidance of the people I am working with. I have focused my art in the last couple years on my impression of death, being a major influence on me all my life. Since death is a natural process of life, I am planning with my art on furthering my investigation into different interpretations of death, which will help me to look at it from different perspectives. Since I do not try to control my paintings, I allow the work to guide me. I will first start to pursue looking into other theories about death, by contacting different professionals that work in the field of medicine; e.g. pathologists, oncologists, psychologists, funeral directors, and also people that are dying. I am going to be reading philosophers who write about death, and look at artists and movies that have addressed the topic. I am also going to examine suicide, since it is also another form of death, by interviewing people that have tried suicide and asking them “what makes a person want to choose death over living?” Why does death become the alternative to someone in his or her present state of existence? Has the pain of someone’s physical or mental anguish become the temptation for romancing the idea of death? The more ways I can investigate varieties of ways to present death, the more I expect they will lead me down the same path but with some variations on its course. I would like to try working directly from a microscope instead of from the images of slides that I have been taking pictures of. One of my objectives will be to assign a life to the existence of these paintings, by becoming more personable with the images of cells that I am taking from the slides. I am going to try using slides of people I know; that way an entrance stays open through a door, through which a spirit can travel. I expect my art to proceed down these different avenues so it may develop into something positive in this world.

I can’t envision what my work will look like in the future, since I have not yet gone through the process, but my intention will be to keep it alive in an enlightened light. I feel working with the subject matter of death has many possibilities since it is a normal function of life which should be looked at positively. I don’t plan for my art to be political or to make a social statement, since I don’t want to be redundant about what we already know is evil in the world.

My art keeps me humble and in touch with life. It causes me on a daily basis to maintain humility which help me keep an open mind to acquire knowledge so that I may be my own encyclopedia to understand life, which gives me the freedom not to fear the unknown: namely, death. With my art I can take something that is looked at negatively and turn it into something positive. I feel that by putting back the positive energy with my art, it can give some purpose to my life as my contribution to offer back to the world, that I may have contributed a speck of something decent to the existence of human kind, which will help to override negative forces.