Keenness and tolerance, concentration and indifference, hate and generosity commonly reside together within the images of my imagination. I commonly use the senses exaggeratedly expressed and the harmony within them. Using contemporary colors and creating sarcastic objects are my favorite methods. These techniques have been directly or indirectly influenced by Korean traditional folk painting.
As an artist, I find myself looking at every element in my artwork which is continually crashing into the outer world, with generous and affectionate eyes so that I can eventually plead for them through the artwork. From that point, my journey to the outer world really begins.

For me a canvas is a place where the unknown meets the known. My pallet is highly saturated with little or no mixing. I avoid rule-following, especially the rule about ‘staying on one side of the color wheel’. I feel complete freedom and enthusiasm when I paint; any conscious mental process diminishes the fun for me. My inspiration comes mainly from within; my internal impressions at the moment of connection between me and the blank surface, not from outside objects or preconceived ideas. It is a release, an internal exploration and the acceptance of what I create as it presents itself. I can only guide it, my personal journey in search of myself.

My art is about the interconnectedness of things, our complex interactions and relationships, six degrees of separation, and celebration of everything that unites us and pulls us apart. The joyful colorful creatures that I paint are very much the “learning, playful souls” that Richard Bach wrote about. We enter this world to reach out and connect. We are not bound by space and time. We fly for the sake of flying; we live because we love life. We touch, we teach, and we learn from one another. Sometimes these connections are happy, sometimes quite odd, but that's what makes life colorful, joyful and beautiful.

My paintings range from abstract to expressionistic, and it’s the mood that I’m in that decides how the painting will end. The work is the result of the harmony between the colours, the music and me. It’s a really exciting process. My technique with the different tools that I work with delivers a painting that stands out in the art world.  I want my art to bring happiness, joy and a good feeling for the observers and to produce something that people like and want to have in their home.  

My first composition was a small graphic when I was only 4 years old, which I framed with firelighter wood. I was 10 when I read an interesting 2-volume book about the life of Mihály Munkácsy. The book reflected the possibility of splendor, luxury and success. In the early years, my main subject was nature. Thereafter, I enlarged my scope to individual thoughts, emotions and human destiny. Today I focus on three topics: human relations, memories of my journeys, light and colors. The size of my pictures changed over the years; I dared to expose my ideas on larger canvases.          

Painting, writing or taking pictures are the doorways to my soul’s freedom. Art is what breaks the bonds that chain me to this physical world, the wings that carry me to the other end of the rainbow where I find the missing link that connects me to eternity. Photography started it, followed by drawing. Delving deeper, I discovered the poet, the romantic, and the sensitive being that sleeps inside of me. I woke him up. I was complete when painting emerged through the fortunate encounter of Haitian master Tiga. Within my soul live three distinct entities, the painter, the photographer, and the poet, they all live there in perfect harmony. Inspired, possessed, talented, call it what you may. I am just the conduit, I only let it flow.

I am eternally fascinated with beauty of women. Living in New York, I am fortunate to be able to observe women of different races and skin colors daily. When I walk by, or ride in subway with a woman of striking beauty, she leaves an impression on my mind. In recent years, I have been fascinated by young Japanese women, and they became the subject of my artwork.  I also like flowers, leaves and still lifes. I usually draw from my memory, imagining a woman with personality. I give her a name and she becomes a real person. I paint with acrylic, or mixed media, on paper or board.

Increasingly I try to resist the temptation to specify things in any detail beyond some vague initial idea I can use as a starting point and instead prefer to remain open to any demands; seeing, recognizing, touching, feeling. As a result, the representative spirit is gradually pushed to the background and, like a counterweight, the non-objective aspects of the picture come to the fore. And that is where nature, as an opening argument, has really sprung in. With it comes an open and happy capitulation to the tactile, the untamed, the material, the chromatic. Colour becomes something almost palpable and matter is a state of mind.

For my work, I take an emotion, a spectacle and work it in my head for a time, and then I translate that onto canvas…fast. I paint just that moment when life is about to change, the instant when a smile becomes a tear, when freedom from care becomes concern, when white becomes black. I try to approach, understand and capture this brief moment. During this time, I float between nothingness, a dream, and simplicity. The result is intense works that stir emotion in the viewer. I typically work with bicolor or tricolor on white with oil paint. My culture says to me that I can't lie with my art, so I try to reach that moment of truth.

I would like to think that the body of my artwork is inspired from all of my life experiences.  Sometimes, in this world, people are continuously misunderstood and they are never heard.  Because of this experience, I use my expressionistic style and my choice of colors throughout my artwork to portray an image through my visuals. My work comes from a personal place where I can turn and release my feelings and my inspirations into visuals.  I believe that I use my paintings as a vehicle to show my state of happiness. I will always continue to explore all of these inspirations through using acrylic, enamel, watercolor and mixed mediums.