My initial concept for The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth envisioned gathering individual threads, from people world-wide, to depict the common thread of our humanity.
Originally named Encounter,The Last Kiss evokes a kind of sadness,strength,and harmony. Tooled out of one piece of stone, cut in half, and then turned to face one another, this stone is born out of one.
September morning, September 11, 2001, was a clear blue skied day, the kind that gave me feelings of well being. Then... the atrocity occurred and September was brutally savaged, never to be the same.
I am currently a Visual Communications/ Graphic Design student with a minor in Digital Literacy and Multimedia Design at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
In 2001, I traveled to New York City a week after the September 11 tragedy to assist with the relief efforts and painted a huge,three-panel mural of the American flag. This experience in New York inspired me.
In an article in The Taos News dated September 26th, 2002 Rick Romancito refers to my work "Reflections" or "Utopia Broken" as oddly titled. Aptly titled would have been more appropriate.
In my collection Remembering Heroes of America I explore the meaning of good and evil, freedom, liberty, the force of divine justice and superheroes. In the process of this exploration, I also honor the memory of the lives lost in the attacks of 9/11.
As a realist I always strive to create art that stirs emotion and transforms the viewer. My hope with the 911 tribute art is that it transforms and helps to heal.
This song is dedicated to all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001. To the first responders who never came home and to those who continue to lose their lives because of their bravery and selflessness that day.
I painted a series of pictures from the 9/11 disaster from life (beginning that very day) as a personal catharsis as well as for historical purposes to give a painter's perspective of the event.
