Experience and all that I have absorbed during a life of seeing and learning, undergird my art process and resulting images. While pairing light bulbs with bones, forks with birds, and Christmas lights with asthma inhalers I fashion a language of symbols that tell a story. Each ink/watercolor drawing or collage is built around these real or symbolic objects. They may seem unrelated to each other, but actually reflect the increasing impact of humankind upon Earth's living biospheres, which The Creator of All so deliberately and magnanimously designed throughout the eons.
In some works, a written litany of endangered or extinct species are my lament for all the creatures great and small that humankind has so casually abandoned in our pursuit of alternative paradises. Finely honed technique and a strong concern for the environment pair up with a personality characterized by a questioning bent and a sense of humor to form these surreal pictures; stories of the American landscape and our disconnects-connections to it. The fun for me is in trying out unusual combinations of forms and solving the mysteries of the links between them. I hope viewers will recognize questions posed in most of the pictures, questions that ask each of us how we are called to be responsible stewards of the wonderful, but rapidly diminishing Web of Life.
