Sticks and Stones: words can hurt for a lifetime.
This group of portraits, inspired by the old adage, "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me," is an illustration of how that saying needs to be revisited. Given all that has been discovered about bullying, especially verbal bullying, it was...
Queer, Fag, Idiot (Self-portrait) on view at UNC, Pembroke
A very recent digital photographic diptych, "Queer, Fag, Idiot (Self-portrait)' went on view in the 3rd Annual International Juried Exhibition, "Inner & Outer Landscape: Contemporary Self-Portraiture & Representation' at the A.D. Gallery at the University of...
Installation: Picnic in the Rain (Le Déjeuner sous la pluie)
In “Picnic in the Rain”, you are the vitality of the work. Your presence activates the work just as the work gives you whatever feelings or perceptions you take away from it. ZEN On it’s most basic level, Picnic in the Rain is an environment for contemplation...
Digital Landscapes
Moment by moment, glimpse after glimpse... we are constantly being given opportunities to see the world as it is, in all its depth and simplicity. These photographs capture those times when the grandness of the world is punctuated by moments of stillness and clarity....
Photography: Dog Walks
Any landscape is a metaphor for the human mind and condition. It is full of textures, colors, hills and uncertain depth that are a map of how our minds are. The reality we see is just that, only something seen as perception but not anything that can be characterized...
Pause
This 'marker' represents both the psychological/emotional break I took for several years and the lapse in any serious effort with my work. From the years 1998 through to 2003, I took a long break from producing any serious artwork. THough I continued to investigate...
1990’s expressionism
My full-fledged work with Neo-expressionism began and ended in the 1990's. My imagery moved away from landscape as the primary subject and it became more of a ground for images of people, emotions, ideas and reactions. I was completely enthralled by the idea of...
Slice me up, slice me down
I remember. Unlike so many people I know, I remember. The details may not be 100% but the colors, emotions and general tone of the experiences are still vivid. So many middle-aged adults, like myself, look at young people and say, "Look at them. How can they... that...
Thinking, dreaming… and preparing
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working out the issues of how I want to spend the balance of my days. Given my family history (mom dead at 62, dad at 76) if I make it to 80, it will be a miracle. Combine that with having smoked for way too many years, which...
Expressionist Landscape
About the time I was really understanding the technical requirements of photorealism, I was drawn more and more to what was new and exciting in New York. The friends and acquaintances I had at the time, some of whom are still my big supporters and friends, were living...