I’ve always had dreams of intense fields of color. I believe my dreams are visions of imaginary hues and values beyond what our eyes can see. My work focuses on emulating the impression of these colors within the spectrum of visible light through vibrant interactions in abstract space.

This is not a claim that I am able to see auras or any other mystical thing whatsoever. I just have always had powerful dreams consisting of extremely powerful colors. Colors so intense that they seemed to blur the lines between perceptual and emotional experiences. What made these dreams so vivid was a mystery until I started studying design in college. While learning about color gamuts, “the range of reproducible colors or the physical limitations of an input sensor or output device,” I had a revelation. Our eyes can see more colors than a computer screen can produce, and more than a digital camera can capture, and ink printed on a page has an even further limited range. But taking this in the other direction I realized our eyes have definite physical limitations which restrict the colors we are able to see. They are “imperfect input devices.” I believe my colorful dreams are my mind imagining colors beyond the boundaries of human sight, beyond the range of perceptible light.

Although I can’t reproduce these “imaginary colors” I take inspiration from them and attempt to create similar emotional responses through subtle shifting and layering of intensely saturated hues. The works are not symbolic or conceptual - they are spaces where the power of color deeply connects with innate human instincts.

I started painting in the late 90s and ran a small gallery in Denver, Colorado. I moved to NYC in 2000, only to discover no one had any interest in abstract paintings. Distracted by other more successful pursuits, I stopped painting. Now twenty years later I’m starting over, merging my original inspirations with a more seasoned perspective. I am fascinated by the explosion of new digital “art tech” and diving deep — exploring new expressive tools in contemporary digital art & web3.