When I first met Christon in 2009, he was still finding his style (and me, my voice). He was experimenting with found objects, textures, shades, mixes of abstract and photo-realistic imagery. He was on the right track, working his way to an understanding of his calling and what he wanted to say with it.
“Realism is the classroom, and abstract is my recess,” Christon told me in an interview before his show with Al Feinstein opened at Gulf Coast State College s Amelia Center Gallery in January 2020. “I enjoy the end product of realism, but staying in the box is tedious. I capture what I want to capture. I’m not chasing that hyper-perfection like a lot of artists are chasing.”