?My two most recent drawing projects (Warmie Diary #1 and #2) both measure 125 yards long and use colored pencil and pen as the main medium. Each project utilizes hand-written text culled from books and random newspaper articles, accompanied by related illustrations and geometric shapes. I added drawings and hand-written text each day to fill out the empty white space. This happened over the course of 10 months, and I recorded the date each day. Hence, the title “Warmie Diarys.”

Both my drawings and paintings have the common thread of “patience” between them. Many of my paintings use Japanese pigments on traditional Japanese paper. The preparation of this pigment and material is time-consuming and requires patience. The rich color and texture needed to express my feelings are best conveyed with this painting material and technique.

The idea of patience is carried thru to my drawings. I use handwritten text and colored pencils for drawing in the same way I use Japanese pigments for painting. Both use hundreds and thousands of tiny shapes as the foundation of my art. These tiny shapes form the basis of my paintings and drawings, representative of the many words I am too cowardly to speak. If I speak the words maybe they will disappear without understanding. I paint them on paper one by one, so I know they will not disappear, but stay here forever.

The pieces of a heart, maybe they are very small, tiny things that everyone feels in their life. I believe the human struggle against sadness and adversity is a beautiful thing. If I can laugh at how I drank too much and slept on the tiles of the bathroom last night, if I can say “not so bad”, then I can feel optimistic about everything in my life.