I began drawing at age ten. I used to make three-panelled, newspaper-style comic strips and show them to my friends at school, they would laugh and make encouraging remarks. When I was twelve, my mother enrolled me in figure drawing classes at the University of the Arts, in downtown Philadelphia, PA, This continued until I was seventeen, at which time I began classes as a freshman at Syracuse University in upstate New York. While at Syracuse, I met a professor named Jerome Witkin whose passion for the narative image inspired me to always reach for the heroic in life. He taught me discipline, as well, and showed me that this was the best way to acheive my goals. I attempt to capture the intensity that I feel in all life. In the struggle of myself and my peers, and in our successes. People have such an amazing capacity for emotion, but inevitably what breaks us down are conflicts within ourselves. Struggle and hardships begin when our inner unity breaks down into opposing parts, equally strong forces that stand in conflict with each other. But when these extremes eventually look into each other's hearts, they will recognize themselves, and in this moment of love and recognition, the two again become one. This is the moment that forever concerns me. The moment of unification and healing. The extasy of convergience, and the long road of joys and sorrows that all people must walk to get there.