My approach to making art is constantly evolving.  I have, in the past, been compelled to paint or draw served a sort of therapeutic purpose, what I call a ‘therapeutic externalization’ of an emotional state or experience in order to more fully understand it and move past it, such as loss, despair, and grief.  That motivation is still at the core of my work today.  Therefore, my attempts to make art are not always successful, because it has been so heavily reliant upon intention to the point of an obsessive control over the medium.  But in the last few years, I’ve begun to (gradually) let go of maintaining so much control over my work, allowing the materials to have a voice and to try to strike up a dialogue in which I, the artist, and the materials and media in which I choose to work might jointly decide on how best to present what I’m trying to express.  This is largely the result of my grappling with my own spirituality, and the realization that duality is really the understanding of the singularity of all things.  There is no longer any distinction between the medium and the hand that shapes it. Sincerity becomes my subject and I, as an artist, work together with the materials to help the subject reveal itself – and it is through this process that I might come closer to realizing the substance of my own being and the purpose of my existence.

At the same time, my approach to making art is also (for lack of a better term) a therapeutic internalization, using the process of making art as a form of veneration of the human experience, as a form of worship.  This involves, as a process, becoming at peace in the present moment, attuned to the work before beginning, then dedicating the work (to God, to the World), performing each task to the greatest of my ability (as if the work were directly for God), and then completely detaching from the work in every way (in ownership, in either pride or disappointment), and lastly presenting to the work to the world as a gift in the name of God, as an offering. 

This dual approach to making art, collaborating with the materials and yet detaching from any sense of judgment of the work, allows the work to be what it wants to be, to be genuine, to be sincere.
I shall leave it to you to determine its merit.