Most of my work is unsentimentally celebratory, humorous (not LOL but just-for-fun) and occasionally satirical. One prevalent theme is anthropomorphism, a penchant for endowing the inanimate with personality. Conversely, there is something intriguing in the way in which our "stuff" seems to assume independently a spirit or life of its own as it displays the traces of usage. Thus food, rope, tin cans,old tools, anything used can come alive.
Metaphorical transformation is another source of subject matter. Greek mythology and fairy tales have dramatized the wonderful effects of human foibles and virtues on visible form. I would like to waft a similar wand over some contemporary characteristics.
The marking is loose, gestural and suggestive rather than meticulously descriptive requiring the viewer to participate. Color is the divine gift which sets a mood, and knits together the whole as it appears and reappears in different planes. The imagery is nervously active in keeping with the notion that all matter, includ- ing us, is a mass of swirling atoms.
Love of magic, mystery, and the ambiguous does not mean interest in the paranormal. I abhor superstition and believe that the ability to pretend, imagine, and accept uncertainty with pleasure is a safeguard against fear, irrationality, and the dead-earnest.
