The main function of my painting is to enrich the senses with nostalgia of past aesthetic traditions, and simultaneously inspire the viewer to transcend their current state of consciousness. In the paintings lie an ideal narrative—it is hopeful, but not utopian. They exist as testaments to my vibrant heritage and offer a humble representation of the complex lineage from which my work derives. The need to deconstruct and reinvent myself is a driving force, and flows through in the paintings. They are not a historical representation, but instead a celebratory interpretation.