This set of three prints in red, yellow, and green predominant colors, respectively, is meant to read as a stop light from a distance. Therefore, it must hang vertically on a wall. This is a tryptych (all 3 images are together as one artwork).

The stop lights from a generation ago have changed dramatically with the use of electronics to manage traffic flow. Today’s traffic lights respond to the volume and speed of traffic; they are no longer inert. As in many aspects of our infrastructure, the management of traffic has been relinquished to electronics from the designer, producer, or inventor. In California, at least, red lights have taken on a new meaning over the last decade: they still mean "Stop!" to some drivers, to others, that single command has been taken to mean "go if you can get through the intersection while avoiding an accident". In effect the command has become a subjunctive, reflecting a general societal re-interpretation of laws and statutes, courtesies and customs. As in other works, I am marking the change in our use of language and the concepts they stand for.

Computer chip wafers, salvaged from an electronics company in 1997/1997 were treated like normal copper plates. They were, inked, and pressed in a traditional printing method. In most cases, these prints have four plates: two 16” square ones and two enlarged photographs of 6” round wafers, etched on to new copper plates.

In this set of prints, the electronics behind the glass lights and the meditative circle of quiet repose that the wafers encourage converge with the memory of works by Josef Albers and Hans Hoffman.