To tell the story behind my art, I would have to tell the story of many artists known and unknown. Most of the artists that I admire have shared the same influences. Cave paintings, Pre-Colombian art, and African art. Then on to the art of Jean Dubuffet because of his love for exploring textures and materials, for praising the graffiti of lovers in the early 1900's in Paris, and for admiring the scrawls of a child and recognizing that the uninhibited mark making of a child is intuitive and pure.I admire Jackson Pollock for those same reasons. I love Paul Klee and his Twitering Machine.I appreciate the graffiti, and the abstract writings of Jean Michele Basquiat. And I enjoy the invasive nature of keith Harings figures and the harmony that they brought to our underground trains and to our above ground streets. Today, I am a fan of Know Hope for his anthropomorphic imagery, David Choe for everything, the narrative of Os Gemos, and I cant name everyone because everyday I see something or someone else that overwhelms me, or I am introduced to a new environment or cause, or simply teaches me a new technique. And that is what I want to be as an artist and what I am as an artist.