My artist statement

When I got to college,(Loyola) my freshman adviser said that I didn't necessarily need to pick my major right away, that regardless of my major I would need to get through a lot of core classes first. But I told him I knew what I wanted to study, and I knew what I wanted to be. I wanted to major in Theology, and I wanted to be a Jesuit priest. Seven years later, still a full time student taking only classes that interested me - I had a fateful conversation with the director of the initiate of the Jesuits. He told me that, in his opinion,I wasn't a `good fit' , and that I might make a fine priest in another order (he suggested the Carmelites.) This was devastating to me. When I told my closest friend, I was embarrassed and dreading telling my family. My friend shook his head and said it was clear to everyone who knew me that I was already a priest and an alchemist. Suddenly I woke up. It was kind of like the scene in the first Matrix, when Neo goes to see the prophet and she tells him that he is not the `one'. Being told that he wasn't allowed him to better fulfill his destiny. Sacerdos, is a general Latin term used to refer to priest - or people whose lives deal with a relationship to the sacred. It originates from root for sacred.  My creative work is the work of a sacardos, and my life is dedicated to developing a relationship with the sacred.