The imagery I employ – the figure, still life objects, collage elements – is used in varying manners – literal, symbolic, referential. The intent is an immediate yet subtle visual vocabulary which exhibits an evocativeness – emotional, intellectual, and/or physical.

Either life or art can serve as inspiration. Whatever the impetus for a piece, other concerns, such as the formal or the conceptual, are also integral to the process.

Aim for grace.

Corey Okada