"Colors become language-like, as though there is a heightened sense of subtle separation where you can almost read them in tone and graduation. Aside from the altered visual experience, sound may become distorted as well. Local sounds can become blanketed as if in a film clip where the actual audio has been overlaid or replaced with a soundtrack enhancing the aesthetic experience; distant sounds may become amplified as though nearby. I work in collections for aesthetic reasons but also, as the auras can be prolonged producing a set of thoughts and sensations that strongly relate to each other—an essay develops. I explore concepts and meanings in words that might invigorate the imagination, or perhaps for the intellect alone; sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between the two. Through my experience with auras, I have endeavored to connect certain intellectual and emotional studies that enhance the abstract nature of my work."

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