I am a sentimentalist. I am a nostalgist. Sentiment and nostalgia are part of a complicated and subjective reality. In theory, my sentimentality and nostalgia could interfere with my ability to tell stories through art. A storyteller needs distance, or objectivity, from reality in order to distill down to the essence of his/her material. The miniature allows me the literal distance to tell stories by removing it from the real world to a more concentrated, logical and ordered world. Memory is the muse of this work. My memory is a filter clouded with inaccuracies, bias, and distance. I am drawn to the way that my stories morph and refine overtime with repetition. Memory and medium help me separate, condense, and control the sentiments and nostalgia in a way that the real world's super-scale truth can't.