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of what art does, and can or even should do. The biggest insidious, and institutionally dismiss or ignore what they
frustration has been struggling against a system that cannot appreciate. The relational concern of my work is
attempts to codify what sells, thereby killing creativity and intended to embrace all viewers, so their interpretations
individual expression. It has taken me many years to find my are equally valid as mine. The act of viewing is to enter a
creative voice, and a large part of this has been a struggle relationship – a mutual encounter of the painting and the
against such commercial forces. They are very powerful and viewer. This is why the figures in my work are placed so

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