I have a pretty vivid dream life. Now and then they make it into my sketchbooks.   Tweet

Like writers and actors do, I take experiances from my own life and combine them with the stories of others in order to understand and speak for both. Tweet

Take every opportunity to define yourself. Two self-portraits: a recent woodcut, and 0ne from 1997 – “Myself As A Tea Pot” (I’ll explain that in another post).       Tweet

  Around 2000, I was looking at paintings of the crucifixion of Christ, spending a long time drawing his hands. These once extremely powerful images had lost much of their potency due to changing culture. So to bring life to the subject, I cut off his hands and threw them on a table.       Recently, I [...]

  From my painting “Phoenix”. An early clay sketch that found it’s way into the painting:   Tweet

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  Our tradition on New Year’s is to burn the Christmas tree – it takes less than a minute. Out with the old, in with the new!    Tweet