ART BACKGROUND
I am a contemporary visual and digital artist.
My passion for painting was the result of a boat accident in 2015. I fractured my back and injured both wrists. Prior to this accident, I never painted, experiencing what later was diagnosed with "Acquired Savant Syndrome” by Savant Syndrome psychiatrist Dr. Darold Treffert.
Acquired Savant Syndrome occurs when dormant savant skills emerge after a brain, spinal injury, or disease, and this allows people to perform at a prodigious level, creating an “accidental genius”. https://www.agnesian.com/page/meet-darold-treffert
There are only 50 documented cases in the world.
As an artist, I paint with three guiding principles: color, texture, and pattern. I take the great contrast in all three to make a single painting from smooth to streaked, squared to rounded, and shimmering crimson to deep blue.
The methodology to my art is a spiritual and subconscious process. I dream the colors and painting structures first, imprinting the image in my head. In my studio, I sit on the floor, looks at the negative space and start to pick the colors from the shelf.
I line them together on the canvas giving him a “tangible” perspective of the dream. My paintings start on the floor and then navigate to the wall.
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