Having been a poetry writer, counselor and social worker for most of my life. My artistic training began during a period of unemployment in the 1980's when I was recruited as a volunteer workshop custodian and gallery assistant at the center for Art & Culture. This Non-Profit art gallery located in Brooklyn, NY got me through some difficult times. The artists whom I met during my tenure there (15 years) had a profoundly positive impact on my (artistic) life. My preffered medium is Collage, while at the center I was introduced to the life and works of Romare Bearden, but it was when I met Ms. Jewel Golden who in my opinion is one of the greatest African-American Collage artists living, I was hooked.
Then most important thing for me in my work is background, next is content, vivid layers, tricky cuts, sparcity and density properly used can have a most memorable visual impact which is what I seek in my art. Many of my Collages include paragraphs and sentences from print media, I believe this is an urge from my poetic and literary nature.
Do to my love of music I choose Rap musicians as a debut motic because of the "ENERGY" of verbally shared information and stories set to music that many of the brightest stars have provided me.