In my world there are tsunamis, and school shootings. There is pain, there is suffering, and there is a great dark abyss where the demons live. Life is the totality of joy and misery, and lord, I do love it. Art for me is not an escape but a confrontation, an exorcism, a time to cast out all of the beautiful horrors that haunt my brain and trap them on canvas. Art is freedom.more