Between the act of dreaming and the motion of drawing is a place I call the pasarasa: a marketplace (pasar) of other senses (rasa),
of other worlds, customs and creatures. The pasarasa takes life from my waking dreams and comes to life from my drawings. The stories generated from this peripheral realm can best be enjoyed as sequences of pictorial fables, which are often amusing scenes of strange activity, but are nevertheless connected to common human experiences.

My endeavors in printmaking and the techniques of lithography, intaglio or relief work and various applications of have brought unique life to the pasarasa. The meticulousness of printmaking processes allows the stories to unfold slowly.
The stories’ parts and successions can best be translated in the multiple layers in which each print is assembled. Although each print begins with a drawing, the processes of printmaking allows the flavor of each scene to come to life through color, mark-making, tactile pressure, accidents…the possibilities are many and intriguing.