Land of Shadows, House of Light Painting

I am an artist living and working in Queens, New York. My work explores the murky middle ground between myth, dreams, and reality. I combine painting and collage to create an interior landscape, a new psychologically charged and unknown place the viewer may step into. Vague figures and small people (stand-ins for the viewer) interact with, run away from, or wander through these abstract, chaotic worlds. Shadowy figural shapes oscillate between presence and absence, knowing and not knowing. This parallels the interplay of seen and unseen forces in Eastern myth, and in particular Tibetan Buddhism and Balinese myth. What if the ancient and future are interlinked? What is enlightenment and what would you sacrifice to attain it?