I attended the State University of New York, Fredonia campus and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972... needing new experience in an unfamiliar environment, I moved to San Francisco in 1974, and have lived in various places in the Bay Area ever since.

"...to near the distance between the answer and the question..."

"...Art needs sonorities and freedom..."

Work begins with a sense of adventure. The idea of a "picture" is suspended in favor of improvised activity, unbridled by intent, content, or narrative: intuitive rather than directed.

I want the found image to be ambiguous; suggestive rather than conclusive or referential, at home in its own world, occuplying a palpable space. I prefer to engage the imagination rather than the intellect, thus allowing the viewer to claim his or her own associations.

I've drawn inspiration from other creative disciplines; music, not least among them. The visual perceptual world around us is rich in "performance" and constant. This and the issues of our time are assimilated, close at hand; yet, there's still something about apprehanding things abstractly that allows for me, clearer insight into the actual, while not providing answers, but perhaps, a method to arrive ever closer...