This is a general statement that applies to most of the work in these archives. I wrote it partly in retrospect.

Art making , for me, has been an a way to express my inner life, a kind of truth telling about the way I experience things. From this viewpoint what you may see in a picture is less important than what it conveys. So my interest has been to combine or manipulate images in such a way as to reflect the subtleties and ambiguities that color my life.

It has followed that for me the visual world must be at the service of my imagination.  I tend to see all images as constructions.  I see meaning itself as a mental construct and, therefore, infinitely mutable.  Ultimately, the piece that works best for me is the one that resolves in a visual way, while retaining a sense of mystery about what it represents.

I consider drawing and the act of observation very important as ways both to feed and to free my inner eye.  Drawing is central to what I do.  My major influences have all been great draftsmen, among them, Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, Beckman, and Kirchner.