Artist's Statement

"As a color blind person, I did not know what I was not seeing my whole life. I had a fundamental misunderstanding of my own condition. It was not until my best friend bought me a pair of Enchroma glasses that I finally understood and saw red and green as they ought to be seen. So, for my art, I had been using colors that matched what I was perceiving without knowing that sometimes they were wildly off. Family and friends would ask why I was using a certain color in a painting and I would answer, “because that’s the color it is!” Also, for graphic arts projects, it caused me to choose shades of purple, for example, that were not accurate to the object I was representing. I’m sure I unintentionally created some interesting color combinations."