I can say a few things about individual pieces:

Although much of the imagery is gotten from the interior life, Cloud Cover is a direct response to the national travail over racial inequality. The source image, though paired with this contemporaneous series of events, was something I had torn out of a Look magazine from the late 50’s I think. It had been in a folder for some years; things that periodically rummage through to see if an image speaks to me.

The piece, Means of Conveyance is the namesake piece of a cluster of images. The title of this group of pictures was the result of taking stock of the fact that a fair number of images that I had been working with all involved the act of or an object that you could use to go somewhere else. Once that awareness had been reached, then I now know to look for things that operate in this vein. I like a couple of quotes that I have subsequently happened upon, that seem to resonate with this attitude,

“On a huge hill, cragged and steep, Truth stands, and he that will reach her, about must, and about must go…” - John Donne, or ”with all true pilgrims, I circle the cause of love” - Rumi. It’s interesting that I got a cd by Ry Cooder, called the Prodigal Son while I was in the process of making this piece. One song that I was particularly drawn too was ‘The Harbor of Love, and although this picture is basically linear in format, in fact, it is emphatically linear; I kept multiplying the masts/length from the source image so that, hopefully, it isn’t about a particular boat, but more at ssaaaiiiillliiinnnggg, Other pieces make use of spiral stairs as a source image.

Mythinburbia 7 has been around for several years, and I have exhibited it in a different format about 2 years ago. I think that the combination of completing Means Of Conveyance and the pandemic pushed me to re-visit this, lengthening it, losing some imagery to empty it out more aggressively. I am in general becoming more fond of a panoramic (pandemic?) orientation. It also reflects a strong interest in using the gravitational force of a small, focusing image to animate large spaces. Lastly, this is a good example of how pieces comment on one another, converse with each other; so it’s a good thing that I seldom sell one of these as I can easily imagine that I would just continue to work on them ad infinitum.