My name is Kevin Xiques and I am an artist based in Queens, NY. My paintings are visual diary entries. As a black person adopted into a white family in Vermont, my childhood was tangled between a rural white setting and an unnurtured black identity. In an attempt to seek clarity of my truth, my life has been dedicated to self discovery, and I utilize painting as a vessel to discover my whole self. Through unplanned intuitive mark making and gesture, my action or inaction informs my relationship with myself in the present moment; happiness, pain, love, and resentment all inhabit the world that I create on the canvas. When finished, a piece of myself is revealed, generated through an accumulation of intertwined gesture, shape, density, and color.