I've lived and worked in the Bay Area since 1976. Exhibited in the Czech Republic, Belgium, England, Italy, Germany and locally at Southern Exposure, The Lab, Intersection for the Arts, Build, Collision and other venues. Visual arts awards include the San Francisco Art Institute's Adaline Kent Award (2000) and a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Visual Arts Award (2001). My work is archived at the Avant Writing Collection of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library of Ohio State University, Columbus and the Experimental Writing Collection of University at Buffalo, New York, and collected by The Contemporary Museum, Hawai'i, The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, and over 200 private collectors.

I call my creative practice "philentropy" - a dedication to the generous and thoughtful rearrangement and redistribution of matter and energy. In all the many media with which I work, I take what I "find," whether properties intrinsic to materials or, literally, found objects andimages, and create situations or relationships in which this found material can "be itself" without the constraints of expectation or convention. Often the "finding" brings me to unorthodox materials: Liquid Paper, iodine, concrete, mercurochrome, spar varnish, paper dartboards. Experimenting with the spontaneous interactions of these unorthodox materials creates unexpected results; my control over these experiments is vague and intuitive, which is how I prefer it. I like to be delighted by what I have semi-wittingly made.