"I have always liked geometry. Several movements and artists had already worked on euclidean concepts. I learned from the Russian avant-garde movement, Constructivism, Suprematism, painters like El Lissitsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, Kandinsky and many others.  Of course, I didn't want to repeat or copy anyone.  I am a storyteller and what I do is distort reality to create new dimensions.  In grad school, I worked with the great Russian scholar Alexander S. Zenkovsky who asked me to write an article on “ostranenie” or “Verfremdung”. Translated the terms mean “distancing” or “alienation.”  By that, it meant taking a object and defining it for what it is.  A flag became a stick with a rag, a chandelier became a cow's udder and so on.  What I do is imagine a picture in real time and reassemble it in my mind in euclidean terms and colors that tell a story of their own.  Geometric art is more complicated for me because it is more challenging than copying Nature as it is."