Once I felt the unforgettable experience of all things being connected and everything as one, I looked at nature differently. I realized that WE are nature, along with everything that arises from Mother Earth. When we commune with medicinal plants, we are infusing our biology with the intelligent chemistry of ancient beings that have existed long before us. After receiving many downloads from naturally occurring psychedelics, I began recognizing patterns in nature that could be measured by mathematical equations. This changed my perspective of nature as no longer being a random chaotic force, but an intentionally organized living representation of a higher intelligence. That profound shift influenced me to dedicate my creative practice to further understanding nature through the act of painting.

Before psychedelics opened my awareness to the spiritual realms, I was very much a close-minded, agnostic, who viewed the world through a proof-based, scientific lens. Similarly, I took comfort in the fact that math is a language that is precise and absolute. Rather than abandoning my formative education, I began to see how science and math could help inform my mystical experiences as well as my art. Ultimately, these formal disciplines are leading us to the same universal truths that are found within meditation, breath work, and psychedelics. I believe there is no end to the ever-unfolding mystery that is life. However, I also feel we are living in an exciting time where things like quantum physics, chaos theory, and artificial intelligence can help aid in the evolution of our consciousness as we are indeed part of the infinite fractaling multiverse perceiving itself.     

"Gateway OG" is a tribute painting to cannabis, the first plant medicine that revolutionized the creative abilities of my imagination and caused me to fall in love with nature. This miraculous plant has helped begin the dismantling of the war on drugs(war on consciousness) and has opened the floodgates of healing that exists within the full spectrum of plant medicines. The "Super Bloom" painting is a playful examination about the fractal nature of desert flora and the ancient native medicine contained within cacti.