I come from a blue collar working class family from the south side of Chicago. My father was a mason more specifically a tuckpointer.

I labored for him during weekends and summers while I wasn’t in school. We travelled al over the city so I gained a great love for its’ architecture; more specifically brick and stone buildings. After the Chicago fire of 1871 fire retardant brick buildings became the standard in the city and eventually the country.

This experience taught me 2 things; one, the importance of a solid work ethic and two, that I didn’t want a career in masonry.

At a young age I was always drawing and creating but I gravitated to painting architectural structures and mechanical objects for the precision and the variation of surfaces that I grew to understand and appreciate. The way light catches the structure and how it reflects and casts shadows became a passion of mine. I like combining this love of architecture with my affection for reflections of glass and metal primarily in the automotive world.