 | | This gallery contains work that deal with mortality and the aging process. Our culture is youth oriented and tries to hide or reverse the aging process. |
 | | Personal growth is about change - about leaving one place and going on a journey to somewhere else. We often feel a nostalgia for the places that we leave - weather they be situations, people, or geography. They have created who we for god or bad. |
 | | Love is one of the most complicated experiences we have. It takes many forms and often ambushes us. It is demanding and each experience of it marks us till the end of our days. |
 | | These paintings have an expectancy about them. We are living in a time between epochs - witnessing the end of one and the birth of another. |
 | | Every society has instinctively created a priest/shaman role for itself. It may reside in one profession or broken up into many, but each society will have 'priests' - experts that mediate between the visible and invisible worlds. Shamans, priests, psychiatrists, social workers, etc. |
 | | This gallery contains reinterpreted traditional religious subjects. |
 | | The paintings in this gallery are about the relativity of truth. |
 | | The sculptures in this gallery were made from plastic film that I melted paint, foil, objects, and images into. Several of them were hangings that floated in mid-space and measured 25 or 30 feet long by 6 to 8 feet wide - yet weighed only a few pounds which allowed any ambient wind to move them. They were also incorporated into dance and dramatic pieces where they were strobed in darkened rooms. |
 | | Our lives goes through cycles. The cycles can go down or up but move in three phases. The first phase is the existentially uncomfortable phase when a person feels a vague, but strong, need to 'move on'. |
 | | This gallery is about aspects of North American culture. The materials used in the creation of the artwork displayed here are North American in nature not European, Asian, South American, etc. I believe that there is a 'referencing' of an artwork to a particular way of seeing it based on the materials used in its construction. |
 | | I have been involved in social causes for many decades. My involvements have led to artworks. Most of the artworks in this gallery could be placed in other galleries but are more appropriately placed her. |
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| Artist's Statement
My art is:
1. the process by which I resolve my 'existential unease';
2. the product of that process;
3. a method for others to explore the same topics;
4. an historical record.
When I look retrospectively at my art I find that it has coalesced around the intuitive pull I feel to discover a metaphysical ground, an ultimate reference point from which all meaning is derived...something formerly called 'god'.
Every artist needs an obsession to generate the energy to create and this is mine. It is what stops me in my tracks and causes me to wonder. It is the muse that pulls me on my journey.
The following galleries are a record of that journey-
A Pilgrim's Progress-
An Everyman's path.
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