Artist's Statement (in translation)

Many factors contribute to the formation of an artist's personality. Basic skills, determination and inspiration are obvious prerequisites but they are never enough in this ever-changing world we live in. To survive, we must keep pace with and understand the change that surrounds us but in order to excel, we must move at twice the pace of others. I strive to do the latter.

As a creative person, I also strive to keep in touch with both the past and the future. One teaches us who we are and how we got here while the other is the gallery in which we will be remembered. Together these make up humankind's eternity. I want my contribution to this eternity to be with minimum compromise and no second thoughts. My work is a combination of knowledge and feelings entering the prism of my mind at any given moment and exiting thorough my hand. Of my feelings, the only one I have barred from my work is aggression, for we can find both good and evil in all things, but we can also choose which one we ally ourselves with and contribute to humankind's eternity.

As an artist, I strive to express positive emotions using unpretentious media. Media in which characters and objects can exist in harmony as they interact among themselves. Color is the most important element in my work but my choice of color is often without explanation. I surrender to my subconscious and simply act as an intermediary, allowing colors to present themselves without requiring my permission.

My primary techniques and media are ink on silk and woven wool and silk. I augment these with a variety of techniques such as batik and additional media ranging from beads to foil candy wrappers. The result is an inseparable marriage of functional art one can wear and fine art one can appreciate on a wall or suspend in mid air.

My motto in life is to embrace everything the world presents us with: the black and the white, the hot and the cold.

So says the king who rules over himself.