When I am creating, my focus is on the way that color interacts with shape and is influenced by light.  Much of my work is influenced by classic cubists and surrealists but covers all artistic styles.  In line with two of my favorite artists, Rene Magritte and Peter Max, neither the colors or the shapes must be what the mind has been trained to expect.  It is the challenge of breaking down those preconceptions yet maintaining an understandability in my product that keeps me changing and growing as an artist.