in 2004 I was accepted by Dr Royster of the African American Cultural Center at UIC to do a solo art exhibition and lecture for a series that I would have to create specifically for this gallery .... I decided to incorporate my love for language with my love for fine art and expressionism and the result was the FINAL WORD series of what I later called "wordscapes" ... these WORDSCAPES reflect the graffiti of public urban spaces designed to highlight the importance of language in communicating ideas and information ... the lecture consisted of a 30 minute presentation of the beginnings of communicating through writing and it's lasting effects of drastically changing the world ... one of the references I suggest people read is the Alphabet versus the goddess by Leonard Shlain explaining the transition from oral traditions of history to written methods of transfer of information ... a seemingly instantaneous and simultaneous transition from feminine to masculine god/goddess worship happened with the transition of left to right brain dominance created by the use of written language communication, a phenomenon I find compelling ..... the FINAL WORD series also awakens the notion of our brains ability to connect words into meaning and since the words are placed at random onto the canvas, no two viewers will see the artwork the same since our brains attempt to create logic that resonates with us on a personal level ... however, I am constantly discovering more ways humanity can relate through these introspective reflections and attempt to utilize the series as a therapeutic method of healing