After a hiatus of about thirty years, and with the encouragement of a friend who was a ceramic sculptor, I began to work in clay.  Many of my pieces were heads with holes, cracks, and gaps.  A typical title was "More Space than Substance".  I was trying to work through my experience that the self was not some solid thing but rather a transient, ever changing process.

Next, I discovered photography and digital image editing.  As the above sample indicates, I was now playing with the "world" rather than with the "self".  I liked destabilizing perception.  The photograph above looks like a typical Hawaiian scene...the lovely, but unoccuppied grounds of a luxury hotel...except the blurred scene between the first and second palm tree trunks makes it look like a fogged window.  The momentary confusion causes the viewer to look closer.  When ever the taken for granted is disturbed the soul rises to the surface to inspect.  Hopefully my art provokes that response in many viewers.

Currently I am a member of The Fort Gallery Artist Cooperative.  We have a gallery at 9048 Glover Road in Fort Langley.  I will be mounting a solo show there at the beginning of September 2006.