I create portraits and images of people in an altered, dreamlike, and magical way using color, pattern, shape, and texture of paint. I use bright, unrealistic, and skewed combinations of color to show different senses about parts of the body or aspects of the personality. I use the way in which the paint is applied and the touch to transmit an emotion or feeling. My aim is to create a world oscillating between dreams and reality. I pick subjects from reality, altering them into dreamlike images by adding symbolic colors and forms. I take pictures of people that I saw on walks through the city of Los Angeles. Instead of painting an imaginary and symbolic world around the figure, I tried to find people who were already part of the world, yet that still embodied some symbolic aspect of it.

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