Works on Paper

From very early on I have recognized the power of strong images to stir us deeply without introduction or explanation. “Hallway” is an invention that will, hopefully,elicit strong echoes in the sensitive viewer’s imagination.

As many of us realized, it turns out that living through a global pandemic is incredibly exhausting! After a couple of months, I began to work on copper plate etchings. I found that focusing on portraiture, and rendering through observation specifically, to be incredibly meditative. Working on these plates felt more like solving a logic problem than making a piece of art.

What is America? What themes and concerns do we see in the voices of those that have come before us? This series explores these voices in the here and now to ask the viewer: America is...

The Morning brings the color and chatter of the bluejay. The graphic shapes add the vibrant sound and color of the morning.

Unintelligible Life is an artist book featuring Japanese paper treated with Suminagashi and Lego relief printing in Morse Code relaying a story of what life is “supposed” to be.

I was walking on Christmas Day this year and came upon this view from the covered bridge of Bull’s Bridge Pond reservoir over the Housatonic River in Kent, Connecticut. I was mesmerized by the churning and roaring water, creating swirling patterns from the waterfalls and rapids.

There seems to be some sort of different way of looking at “rights” recently—I’m just wondering what they could possibly mean by all this…

The components of these images are derived primarily from notebook drawings which are a means of personal exploration to at best resolve, and at least come to terms with, experience.