I am a painter, working in mostly in oil, creating work derived from living in urban environs.  My work expresses my interest in the 'geometry' and balance in the world around us, as observed in the quotidian views of skies framed by power poles, phone lines, edges of buildings at twilight, etc.  I love trying to capture the element of time affecting space;  the views change constantly as one moves through the environment, with one's eyes looking upward at the swirling skies....

For my paintings, my medium of choice has been oil. I love the physicality of the medium: it is smelly, it is sensual, it is slow and and it is fast. 

In the past year, I have been exploring 3-D work, constructing hanging pieces from telecom wire and plaster embellishments. This avenue opened up completely spontaneously to me, and I quickly became captivated with making these pieces. When I paint, I know pretty much what I'm going to try to get up on to the canvas when I start. But with these mobiles, it's a completely different story.  They tell me -- I just sort of hang out and put them together by instinct.  It's almost meditative, building these guys.  They're very labor-intensive, and require me to be very focused and very deft in my handling.  They're very very light, weighing almost nothing. I have been suspending them all around my studio, where they catch the ambient motion in the room, and move gently.  To me, they suggest the microcosmic and the macrocosmic, the biologic and the cosmologic.  It's a mystery whence the inspiration arises, so I simply call them "Mementos".