I find element of play to be central––this is what gets me up in the morning. At times I have used a deck of playing cards to determine the appearance of basic themes, on another occasion, castings of the I Ching. Most assemblages grew out of trolling through boxes of flea market findings, waiting for the dental pliers to tell me what role they wanted in the little drama I was staging. The digital prints are recent and allow a very old painting student to do outrageous things with a flexibility and flash not even dreamed of in art school.
The works featured on this site were digitally cannibalized from my earlier assemblages (Theater of Secrets series-TOS-1990) and even earlier collages. The Shrine series is based on a TOS, "Family Closet", using the three central forms and the stage drapes as a constant.
The originals have been photographed and altered––subverted, brutalized, and generally treated with disrespect––to produce new images. They are completed as large laser jet prints on archival paper, reluctantly available to discerning collectors.
