Around the time I started this style of painting, I fell head over heels in love, and continue to fall more deeply in love than I believed possible. We love each other for who we are, not for who we think we should be. This attitude has allowed us to offer our encouragement and enthusiasm untainted by a desire to control. Most of us have dealt with someone's desire to control and even our own desires to control others which creates a miserable and guarded place full of suspicion and jealousy. I adopted the sanded style because it liberates my art from this kind of control. The sanding process dynamically strips away the many layers of the painting, recreating the image of my intent in an uncontrollable rainbow of colors and textures whose surface is nonetheless as smooth as harmony. The end result are unique abstract images that I hope meet the viewer's eyes with love and excitement.