My studio practice revolves around collection, distortion, and transmutation of images from near and distant history, sketches and photography from my personal interactions in the world, and philosophical and spiritual research which directs the motivations for each piece. As I compile and then assemble these chimeric figures into life size drawings on wood, either done in charcoal or brush and ink, the bones of the woodcut become tangible. Through harsh, gestural carving and tedious refinement of passages, there is a delicate balance that takes shape as the wood pushes back and creates its own nuances with each incision of the tool. Once carving has been completed the imagery has undergone yet another metamorphosis as it is inked and printed. Secondary mokulito (wood litho) blocks are then layered on to add an ethereal and fluid domain for the black and white figures to occupy.