We often measure our lives in the before and after, the pre and the post. In my personal life there is pre and post JFK, NYC, cancer, 9-11 and Katrina. I am in horrific awe of the power of life to destroy and create itself endlessly. In most of my work, I am attempting to dialogue with this fracturing, displacing, churning cycle—devastation to re-creation—of natural life force.

Yet, I am also creating landscapes of memory and dreams inspired by long drives on open road, along rolling terrain in all seasons. I use simple symbolic markings of trees and horizon line, scraped into printing plates, building the landscape mostly with layers of paper and colored inks in the printmaking process. These are deceptively simple creations, done with utter spontaneity, joy and love of natural forms and color harmonies.
In preparation for an upcoming exhibition at The Big Top Gallery of 3 Ring Circus, a non-profit arts group in New Orleans, an hour’s leisure drive southeast of my hometown of Gonzales, LA, I am building a body of work aptly entitled “Coming Home”. It is my attempt to record the physical, mental and spiritual journey from our individual self to the outer world, from inner thought to concrete action, from the balanced center out to edgy chaos, and the eventual return back to center, home, if only briefly. It is the sense and longing associated with coming home, along with the realization that once you know you’re there you’re gone. The linear spontaneity and movement is expressed with spontaneous line traveling in evolving patterns, and random pauses, marking events, thoughts, and feelings along the way.

The process of printmaking, particularly creating monoprints, enables the unpredictability of each of my works, mirroring the life processes I describe. Each work is quickly rendered in line and random shape, then layers of thin transparent colored papers of delicate texture are carefully melded between ink and paper using the chine collé process.