I don’t draw or paint or create to change the world. Over-building, over-spending, over-population nor over-thinking our plight or our future or our planet move me. I draw and paint what I see. And that is seldom what others see.

My work is like conversation. I have noted that conversation is an altogether insufficient mode of communication. I have an image inside me and my words (supposedly) communicate that image to you. But the grid with which I filter my words creates in the cosmos a modified image. And your grid modifies that image further according to your place, position and revelation within the space-time continuum. The end result may or may not be in the same neighborhood (or even universe) as my original image.

So now I decide to stifle my words and place on canvas what little my psyche understands about the image within. I still have not bypassed the grid. Only forced the image through it with as little modification as possible. I have therefore widened the grid and it is up to you, the observer, or receiver if you will, to expand your own limiting screen and accept a more nearly accurate manifestation of what is in me.

By so doing we come closer to understanding—I did not say ‘agreeing with’—one another. And this revelation, at the end of the day, I suppose could change the world.

My art therefore, like all art, is to be enjoyed…but also pondered. Something within me (which I do not fully comprehend) is speaking to the something within you. By simply listening, a revelation of understanding and comprehension may just speak to you.

Too lofty a view of the medium? I think not. Art is simply a higher level of communication. And at least what I do is attempting to break through the grid and thereby speak unaltered and unabridged to you…and even…to your soul.