Landscapes.

I love to study the human face and I am going back now into portrait as a way to express my own feelings. These are paintings of real people.

I am fascinated by the form of animals  and how they move, The slow heavy movement of the buffalo is the essence of strength and deep American history. The buffalo symbolizes the tenacity to survive against all  odds. The Buffalo emanates  stamina and wisdom. It took a lot of stamina for me to get thru graduate school. The buffalo helped me.

In 1995 I spent five months studying painting at Cooper Union  in New York City.  There I was deeply influenced by the works of  Michel Basquiat and the emergence of Graffiti art on the streets and subways. I listened daily to Afro Cuban music and was immersed into the hard core jazz world of the city. The energy was everywhere. These paintings also resonate with my Mexican roots. Yellow skull is a study of the  Mayan God of Duality Omoteotl.

These are my first large scale watercolors. I was channelling a lot of information in my mind and trying to find a way to express myself. I could not talk with anyone about what was going on inside me. These paintings were the beginnings of  my emergence, a coming out into myself as an artist.