Inside my own existence, I began to identify all the parts of myself. ROKU to me is the Soul, or at least My Soul. Neither good nor evil. ROKU functions as my moral inclinations. As I went further into my complete consciousness and being. I have identified ROKU as the means for the moral good. This is where my art comes from. My art is neither great nor terrible, it is its self.

Originally Hallucinations was first released summer 2021, however, fully realizing the entirety of ROKU and the need to create art; I had to give it a year to breathe. Exactly a year ago, I was overwhelmed by all the response from my art activities. Mostly encouraging, but a host of nay sayers and just down right ugliness from all sorts of people had made me regret it. There was nothing worse than being disappointed at those you love. Obviously, it had come to straight scrutiny and allotted quite a bit of confusion. People were quick to compare it to visually realistic art, which was opposite of my intention. Again, as an Impressionist Artist in a digital art world; the conception would downright just confuse anybody. Anybody who saw my work was eager to call me crazy which I explained to them was. Of course, to want to become a visual artist at age 31? Yeah, I also had my share of doubts. But, this was never for a profession. This was my passion. Something I have been doing since I was just a wee child. Perhaps the reason why it made anyone feel anxious about my decision to pursue this was that they most likely believed I wanted to make it big with my art. No. My art has a place in this world; and that's why I wanted to do it. It was mine.

As a younger child, all I remember was my Dad being an artist. There was this one painting that he did of my mom. All I can feel and see from that painting was all the love and care he had for her; and her beauty and love that filled him. Since then I've always been in love with art. Art was my first love and it supplemented my entire life.

There was a point in 2021 where I just started drawing again; something quite profound has inspired me. Digital art and media has come so far now that what really constitutes as art? Does Warhol still count? I began exploring the idea of Impressionism and Expressionism in tandem in which I drew all of my Conceptual Artistry out of. Out of all the Masters, I always found myself to relate and see the world of Vincent Van Gogh the most. His work themselves, not particularly grande compared to the others, but that was never the point. Vincent's turn for the realism and true sadness had always revolved around my own visual work. His life story with his brother Theo and how for the longest time, he was making art that no one would approve of. As the art movement was predominantly Rococo during his time, and his realist art was too dark and not worthy of the great halls. That place where his art only existed as art for himself is where I found the courage to dwell within what may be a dark and often confusing view of dreams and hallucinations. Although Vincent's focus of subject was the real world. My focus for my first series Hallucinations was situated far more into the reality of the mind, whereby science and reality meets art. The entire work can be summed up with a single question: What do you see?