Romantically speaking, the Harmony Series is a celebration of the colors that I encounter my everyday world.

However, conceptually speaking, they are a product of my imagined conversations with artists who's paintings I admire.

I remember learning about Picasso and Braque and how they developed cubism through their visual dialog. Picasso would paint a painting. Braque would look at it and paint an answer to Picasso's painting.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story as this was something that I did with my own friends when I was younger.

So now I continue it with all of the artists who's work I appreciate. Some are dead masters of abstract painting such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Richard Diebenkorn and some are living artists such as Jaime Brunson, Phil Sims, Byron Kim and Mirang Wonne. Ofcourse, since these conversations are imagined, they are kind of one sided or crazy... Because I really am only making up what their responses to my work would be.

But they are fun interesting conversations nonetheless. And I am only consciously doing what many other artists do subconsciously.

This way of conceptualization helps me produce paintings that are unique and are equivalents of an abstract self portrait.