Live From Afar

In 2005 I whisked around the world with a group of other intrepid travelers; I think we covered 10 countries in 10 days. One of them was...

I studied art in Aix en Provence during the summer of 1989. The class organized a visit to the Francois Marius Granet Museum (Musee...

This baby picture from circa 1900 and the lullaby from the same year are displayed next to my 1990 drawing of a cherub from a Baroque...

The pears were from the Friday morning farmer’s market in Carpentras, France, in the early 2000s. The doodles are from 2020.

The lake photograph is from the 1930s in France and the mother and daughter are from a 1950s photograph somewhere in the USA. But the...

Piano sheet music from 1900 with hand colored postcard from same time period and artist’s pen-and-ink baby grand piano.

This is a drawing of the view from my house in Provence, probably around 2001, with an insert of my friend Heidi and her friend hiking in...

This pandemic comes after I’ve reached my 66th birthday. In a recognition that I am vulnerable by age alone, I have taken the time for...

Hand Writing

I found these beautiful eggplant that I painted while staying in Provence around 2000, and matched them with a fragment from a silicon...

This is poured gesso on handmade paper; the lines of the white lines echo the tree roots and branches in the photograph from the 1930s.

In 1989 I studied art in Florence. It was magnificent! awesome! wonderful! to be able to be in the presence of so much timeless art in...

More Abstract Knowledge Between 2012 and mid-2014 I made a series of works using an American edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica. In some...

I did this sketch of different dogs in 2012. I remember my thoughts at the time: I was searching for a medium sized dog to adopt and went...