I cannot ignore the fact that I have worn glasses since childhood and that without them I perceive everything in a drastically different way. I hope to develop a better understanding of what I see by doing works I call blind drawings where I work without the aid of glasses. It's easy to assume that people who can't see well simply see blurry images, but after beginning these drawing I know that it's just not true. If I were to edit a photo, to blur it, the result would be nowhere near what I experience using my natural eyesight. I seem to see edges and yet I really don't. It is very hard to verbalize. So I draw. As I see virtually no line when doing my blind drawings, I am always excited to discover that my drawing is suddenly covered with them when I put my glasses on. The abstract mark making produced, though interesting to look at, is merely the biproduct of creating the correct color relationships necessary to describe what I see. This abstract nature intrigues me as they are direct observations made from a nonabstract reality. They represent a very different way of seeing and understanding the world and I seek to find correlations between what I see artificially and what I see naturally to better understand visual perception and the nature of reality.