My work is in direct response to a personal exploration of the social and individual complexities that define our desires and our multiple perceptions of reality, the inner struggles and search for personal and group identity.

Total immersion in unfamiliar social organizations fosters and requires an elementary shift in perspectives. Though potentially disorienting this shift enriches and provides for a fertile creative impetus. Varying perspectives and experiences serve to inform and give depth to any endeavor whether it is artistic or otherwise. In this regard being an artist is not unlike being an anthropologist. My own focus has centered on our inner cities, individuals that live on the fringes of society, peoples from countries that have or are presently emerging from under the domination of much more powerful nations and once again are seeking to reassert their national identities, my most recent travels have taken me to the Republics of Panama, Ireland and Bulgaria.

The vehicle for my creative exploration is the use of figurative drawing and painting medium in combination discarded materials and found objects. My choice of discarded materials range from old doors, plywood and other materials salvaged from construction sites, dumpsters, second hand stores, salvaged building materials, architectural moldings and other junk rusted wire, nails and/or sheet metal. The shapes and textures of my choice of objects and materials influence my painting surfaces. These materials posses the patina of age and use, or disuse, and thus contribute their own mysterious and unknown histories.

In the developed world, we live in a disposable society. It speaks volumes about that society, its priorities and hierarchy of values. It is amazing to reflect upon what is discarded. Finding value in what others have thrown away is largely a matter of differing perspectives. The recycling of salvaged materials began with a limited body of work executed several years ago. What began with a desire to emphasize the emotional intensity of that series snowballed into a creative philosophy that continues to inform my work.