The Blue Collar Blues

As i've gotten older I've come to appreciate hard working people, they often go overlooked. They do jobs that are brutal, tiring, under appreciated and are far from glamorous, but are important none the less.
Here we see a blue collar worker taking a brief moment to ready himself eyes closed, breathing slowly, readying himself mentally for the day. The marks and lines you see around the artwork represent the chaotic nature and pressure of the job he's stepping in to every day.

I don't envy the guys who work jobs that are this taxing...but I do admire their resilience and strength.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.