Live From Afar

In this collage I’ve used Japanese rice paper, a tourist postcard of Zermatt Peak in Switzerland, a page from Heidi’s hiking song book...

In 1987 I studied art in Urbino and was taken with the arte povera movement that started in Italy. Kirt Schwitters and others who made...

This photograph is so unlike the other formal pictures. Here, a youngish man in a straw hat and a walking stick gazes at the camera in a...

This is the 3rd and last of my India Gate drawings from my insitu sketches while visiting India in 2005. It was a mediocre sketch so I...

This beautiful small photograph of the woods in France in late autumn or early spring lining a country path is paired with a young lady...

Another in the series of Encyclopedia Britannica index from 1895. Here, I’ve poked fun at teachers in a high school, primly posed for...

This is a very complex piece, and partially autobiographical. Start at the bottom at the very stern-faced woman I think might have been a...

The Missus is looking straight at the camera, daring it to document her state of mind. Her beloved is looking elsewhere: why? So I...

If you’ve read other posts, you’ll know I inherited the Encyclopedia Britannica and it inspired me in 2012 to make a series of works. In...

More from my magical market visits in Provence, this one from August 2, 2000. Were the tomatoes really that bright there and then? They...

This might be my favorite piece on the wall. It starts with a fragment of a print that I cut away from the original, and then folded back...

When the structures of the silicon wafers became too confining, I poured gesso on heavy French Arches paper. The thick viscous gesso,...

We’re all feeling the discomfort of face masks under California’s Covid 19 rules: its nearly 100 degrees every day this week and the...

In 1991 I was introduced to an artist who photographed toasted bread among other things. I clearly remember her saying she doesn’t have...

Still or again ruminating about how short our lives are in contrast to a thing, like an encyclopedia, or a print made from worn out...

Because my mother’s life was serrated and nearly destroyed in World War 2, she left very little of her early life behind. One item was...

Lucian Freud’s Odalesque When you take drawing classes in art school, you study specific works of art as well as genres of art. French...

Two long-ago couples celebrate their love in their wedding pictures. To commemorate their special day, I placed them on the brightest...

This is a fragment of a two plate print from 2001. I added a hand drawn and colored leaf to an engimatic antique photo of a Victorian man...

So much of this collage is about walking, hiking, time spent in landscapes singing with the pleasure of beauty and friendship. I loved...