I daydream a lot man. In the morning, on the bus, in class, all the time. Sometimes I daydream so much I can't even sleep. With all that day dreaming it makes it harder to separate fantasy from reality. Or maybe those two somehow coincide. Well anyway, when I day dream it's usually about vibrant colors and interesting designs. I have a habit of thinking about my next art piece. It's like an itch that needs to be scratched!

This was the first painting I ever did. It took me an entire summer because I'm a lazy cat man. Everyday I would come back to this painting, take out a bunch of Deco painting pens, and go to work. It was fun to see all the colors begin to mesh to together into one picture. Really meditative and cool.

I had undeveloped cartoons and designs lying around in my sketch books and I remember being inspired by my friend Hai's painting. So I though why not experiment with this stuff and see what you get. Every time I paint I have no idea what the outcome is going to be. During the painting I begin to go against myself, listening to voices that say, "this is coming out so bad, crap what am I doing, I'm messing everything up!" But those voices don't linger in my head for to long.

I never know what the painting means to me until weeks, even months after. That's what surprises me the most. This painting really means a lot to me about my personal life and how I see the world.

The sad balloon cartoon on the bottom right represent my sad depressing emotions from when I was in high school and middle school. I was desperately searching for my identity in those days and had a low self esteem. I didn't fit in to any type of click and never really had a friend that I truly connected to.

The scary looking guys at the top left represent how I see society. How people seem to conform and try to act the same. No individuality, just a repetition of clones content with their copy cat nature. They are the ones that ridicule and almost punish others for being different through their laughter and mean spirited jokes. I hated middle school and high school.

The designs all around represent the changing world that I constantly try to adapt to. Constantly moving and reshaping to the point where you may think you have a firm grip on life, but then something happens to make you wonder, are you really in control?

REMEMBER, this is what this painting really means to ME! The reason it has no true title is so that EVERYONE can attach their OWN individual meaning to it and put THEIR OWN STORY behind it.

I want everyone to connect and enjoy my artwork just as I do!