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Interview by Jimon<\/p>\n

1- You were born in Miami, when did you move to New York and why?<\/strong>
\nMiami is my hometown and after many years of traveling between the two cities and painting in both, since the late 80s, I moved to the Bronx, New York in 1998.\u00a0 I relocated to Brooklyn in 2000.\u00a0 My decision to paint in New York was due to the direction I was taking in my work at the time.\u00a0 Influenced by the energy, the people and access to a certain kind of geography that was not available in Miami, the city informed me how I developed my language as a painter.\u00a0 New York also became my bridge to the world.\u00a0 Still I go back to Miami often.\u00a0 I never forget my roots.<\/p>\n

2- How did you acquire your style?<\/strong>
\nWhat I do is not about a particular style.\u00a0 What I do in art is rooted in some related genres of art, some of which I continue to have a dialogue with from a historical perspective set in the present.\u00a0 Those genres include Subway Art, Abstract Expressionism, Nouveau Realism, and others like the Situationists, and Flux movements.\u00a0 Some of the artists work I have a visual dialog with are Aaron Siskind, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Brion Gysin, Dongan\u00e7y, Mimmo Rotella, Jacques Villagl\u00e9, Robert Raushenberg, Kase 2, Jean Michel-Basquiat, Gerhard Richter, Jim Dine, Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Louise Bourgeois.<\/p>\n

3- What has the most influence on your work?<\/strong>
\nBreathing.<\/p>\n

4- Who is your favorite artist?<\/strong>
\nLouise Bourgeois.<\/p>\n