In essence my paintings are self portraits. I use my body to make the shapes on the canvas. The traditional concept of a nude painting is that an artist is painting the figure of a nude model, but I have juxtaposed that and become both the model and the painter. These are not paintings of a nude, but paintings in the nude....I am the paintbrush. In some ways you might even call it performance art because of the whole process I go through of painting my body to make each painting. I like the organic forms that occur when I press my body against the canvas, and I feel that I can manipulate the paint to better articulate different moods by using my hands and fingers. I do use paint brushes, but I don't like to be limited to them.