Creating art challenges me to conceptualize ideas and communicate them in a way that is both pleasing to me and enticing to the viewer. While that process is difficult, it is also tremendously rewarding. Often I work with religious, in particular Christian, imagery and enjoy mixing in social and historical themes as well. I aim to make pieces that are both humorous and thought provoking. Since the beginning of my education in art, I have been most attracted to printmaking. I enjoy the methodology as well as the very tactile link to the past this medium provides. In addition, through printmaking I am uniquely poised to integrate and borrow from new technologies and methods. For example, the most recent cast-prints I have created are most certainly the only of their kind because they blend the traditional art of woodblock printing with very recent techniques in sculptural casting. Aside from making a living with my art and having many successful shows, most of all I aspire to always find happiness in the creative process.