 Forbidden Fruit is part of a series that's based on Alice in Wonderland and a friend once told me that when she looked at my work she felt as if she fell through the rabbit hole and in reading the book I recognized the similarities between the book and my work such as in my paintings I create a world that's whimsical and mysterious very much like Wonderland and also when I was reading the book I found myself grasping for meaning and most of the people who look at my work are always looking for an explanation. So the number 82 is the year I was born 1982 and 910 I use that number because it's one away from 9-1-1 which is emergency and so I kind of have crows looming over this figure's head as if something is going to happen to this person. The watermelons I use because they have kind of have a dual nature like with rays they can have negative connotations but it's a very fun fruit that's meant to be shared and kind of bring people together. The letter A it's actually like one of the hieroglyphs like it was originally it originated as an ox head was like the letter A in hieroglyphs so that is based off an ox the figure so I kind of threw that in too. And the mushrooms because this was inspired by the caterpillar story when he was smoking the hooka pipe in Alice Wonderland. I like to keep my paintings open to multiple interpretations because I feel like it keeps the painting relevant and excited.