About The Work
My work is about observation rather than self-expression. I test ideas until I find interesting repeatable solutions that strike me as being aesthetically interesting. There is always a ‘What if…?’ at work.
I have always had an affinity for written language, illuminated manuscripts and ancient texts. Drawing has also been a favorite medium. Drawing is the handwriting of the artist; very intimate and conversational. Traditionally early artists worked out their ideas in sketches and drawings before attempting a painting. This raw record of visual notations and explorations, left in their very candid and often unfinished condition, has always been a subject of fascination.
Portfolio
I started the collage series, that I am still working on, as a visual diary while in college in Texas in 1983. My intention was to make whatever came to mind and continue until I got to 500 collages. At the time this seemed like an ambitious goal. I worked out my general working method. Once standardized in my process, I made whatever struck my fancy.
Through this process I have explored various artistic ideas gleaned from the art history of the past 100 years. I test ideas in leisure that were first proposed in haste and often left undeveloped. The passage of historic time allows perspective. I think of art as a trans-temporal dialog in which artists converse through their works with those of their predecessors and project forward to their artistic descendants.
In time, certain imagery or compositional ideas emerged creating potential that could be developed so I worked out suites of works within the overall Fusion Series. I thought of this body of work as a collection of experimental specimens, so they remained untitled and identified only by a series number.