For Charles, funk extends beyond musical genre. It represents a creative attitude: an insistence on experimentation, transformation, rhythmic intelligence and the freedom to treat established forms as material rather than boundaries. Keeping the funk alive means carrying this spirit forward-not by reproducing its aesthetic, but by applying its creative principles into painting.

“I’m interested in capturing the essence of a subject to the threshold of recognition, to the point where its identity can be felt without relying on what it actually looks like. By separating a subject from its conventional visual or sonic language, what happens is new ways of experiencing something we may already believe we understand.”