IMPORTANCE OF DRAWINGS AS THE IMMEDIATE TRANSLATION OF THE IDEA
 These paintings all start from spontaneous drawings.
This process allows me to approach each project in a liberal way and let it evolve naturally and unexpectedly.
We are so saturated by images that starting from scratch by picking up a pencil and paper suddenly gained a new meaning to me.

DIFFERENT APPROACH AT REPRESENTING THE FIGURE
 Through the years, my figures naturally progressed towards the grotesque.
I think it is because, through the modern day cult of personality and obsession with individuality,
personal characteristics are often pushed to the extremes and, for good or for bad,
figures become such exaggerations of themselves that they can become grotesques.
This is also a tension between the angularity of the drawings and the color of the paintings.

WHITE BACKGROUNDS
 It feels inaccurate to represent modern reality where figures are viewed in a background or
given context because they are so often not. 
There was also the desire to construct a painting so big that it would be impossible.
The white background allows me to digitally unite the paintings, which becomes part of an endlessly growing process. 
Finally, the removal of the backgrounds allows me to focus all of my attention on the figure,
which has always been my passion.