Transformative Art

 I was introduced to art through fantasy books my father gave me as a child—worlds filled with mythical creatures, heroes, and villains. I spent hours copying those images, learning how light, shadow, and simple marks could build entire universes. Drawing became a way to step into other worlds, and into other selves.

In art school in the early 1990s, I encountered computer-generated imagery for the first time and was captivated by its ability to make fantasy feel real. When I attempted to change my major from art to computer science, I was rejected—told that women couldn’t comprehend computers and that artists were too chaotic for such a discipline. As a trans man, this early experience of being mis-seen and denied would later become central to my understanding of duality and identity.

I eventually found my way into the video game industry, where I spent twenty years as a 3D artist helping create immersive worlds for major studios. Although the work was successful, it became increasingly disconnected from the personal, expressive creation I longed for.

Today, I’ve returned to drawing and painting as an act of integration. My work explores duality—not as conflict, but as coexistence: light and shadow, helper and adversary, masculine and feminine, self and other. Through mythic and symbolic imagery, I invite viewers to recognize their own contradictions, find peace within them, and discover strength through wholeness.

This work is where I return to myself—and where others are invited to do the same.