I consider myself to be an expressionist artist. I try to communicate my vision of a world, often hostile and chaotic, in which the fragile beauty of human creativity can redeem and give value to existence. Drawing, painting, woodcut and serigraphy are the mediums that I use to represent the visual poetry that I create.

The artist in his studio, surrounded by objects, looks through the window to the outside. His spirit is a prisoner, captive in the structure of the body. The portrayal of the objects and his image are invested with symbolic and poetic power that may produce a liberating effect.

Allen Hessler