Laguna College of Art + Design

Steven Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, in The Grand Design, coined the term “model-dependent realism”, claiming that everything we know about reality is from observations based on models. They believe that different world picture models pr…

This piece was included in the Society of Illustrators 63rd Exhibition.

The subjects of my work are portraits of myself and people that I know, and still lifes composed of objects that have relevance to the individuals in the portraits. My purpose is simple yet challenging: to promote, through careful observation, an ho…

In the basin of a hidden valley, a skewed rock pile breaks the silhouette of distant blue mountains. The already-fallen sun leaves a green sky in its wake. Without the heat of day to hold it back, a brisk chill quickly rises from the sandy ground. T…

My thesis is meant to be an exciting adventure in which I attempt to convey to the viewer a human portrait as an enigmatic puzzle, filled with allegorical interpretations of moral, social and cultural issues. Recently I came to the conclusion that t…