I personally fell in love with the theater when I was in high school. I had a little taste before but never really lived anywhere long enough to get involved. It was not until I was in high school that I really had the opportunity to sit still and discover who I was.

I had learned, by experience, that it was pointless to to be anything other than what I was. This auto originality made me interesting and within that field of interest I had not only the opportunity but, to me, almost a duty to be interested. The theater, in a time before the internet, before online streaming, and blockbuster summers, was the window to the world. A portal to the past, the future, and the many different versions of now. The many different versions of me.

I enjoyed acting. I found a special love for the complexity of normalizing Shakespearian lines of dialogue and I really enjoyed the practice of seeing things from a different point of view. From within another body. One with a different history and belief. In high school I fell in love with the ballet dancer. I think dance was one of the most similar and distant forms of art that mirrored my own love of creating images without words.

Acting, like singing and writing, allowed the artist to describe with words the direction of information and emotion and with that imbue meaning more directly. Dance, sculpture, painting and drawing are forms of art that use images and movement alone to communicate meaning. This, to me, is where the magic to all art lies. The subtext. It is there in the acted, beyond the words, but still in direct representation. In dance and the art of visual representation you are dealing with a pure subtext. That at some point you have to give wholly over to viewer for interpretation.

I made a promise to myself to always work in the field of art the moment I stepped out of high school and entered the working world. Studying art in Miami in 1992, I found myself always orbiting that performance art world and as a visual artist I was always being asked to create something for their productions. This led me to my first professional job of scenic artist for the Miami City Ballet, before I was even finished with that project I was pulled into an outdoor set for a local Spanish news show and then it became a non stop journey of dance, opera, plays, movies, TV, and all types of performance events.