Every time I visited Puerto Rico, the idea would come up again in my head, to do a portrait show based on the people I would meet during a long visit. “If only I could stay long enough,” I would think out loud, then convince myself it was a crazy idea. I never doubted I could paint that fast, …

Finished this three-minute video at last and sent it to the Richmond Art Commission, as documentation of the community work involved in this Richmond Greenway mural. Don’t miss the credits section!

I was fortunate to be interviewed by Meiying Wu and Tessa Paoli in connection to the Califas: Art of the US Borderlands show at the Richmond Art Center in September 2018. We did it in my Richmond studio and I ended up painting Tessa so they could get a sense of how I worked.