I am a painter. I am a photographer. I am a scientist by schooling and by trade, that is to say, it pays the bills. I am not an artist and I am not a writer, but I feel compelled to write, mostly to put into words what I cannot put into images, just as what I put into images expresses what I cannot put into words. At the end of the day, at best, I am a creator of things. I explain my paintings as such: