Long a fan of the beauty and brilliant craftsmanship of Japanese woodblock prints, I derive inspiration from and find a kinship as relates to my Soliloquies of the Aggrieved series. Just as the documentary-like depictions of the woodblock print- specifically the Ukiyo-e genre- captures the nuanced textures of everyday life in Japan during the Edo era, so to does my Soliloquies of the Aggrieved similarly chronicle through photorealistic painting the socio-political American landscape of the last 20+ years, as scribed in construction site bathrooms in diversity rich New York City. In adopting the techniques and the gestalt of this bygone world and merging them with my graffitied subject matter I provide the viewer a prosaic workaday perspective of the tumult and unrest of our current times.