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I feel that life is a collage of different viewpoints, angles and perspectives. I am drawn to the dramatic juxtaposition of beauty and ugliness; comedy and tragedy; darkness and light -- and I accept the spectrum of human experience in-between these dramatic extremes. I attempt to achieve something universally understood while delving into my most personal observations, or DREAMSCAPES.

DREAMSCAPES symbolize our most personal visions, our most free associations with our mind-spirits, through daydreaming, nightdreaming and the creative process-trance.

They attest to the courage and discipline required of all artists to experience and evoke the full spectrum of life's emotions -- reactions to the light and dark of worldly experience.

DREAMSCAPES, as a concept, embraces all forms of visual expression; hence the inclusion of surrealism alongside abstraction, expressionism, fauvism, naive, symbolism and representational...always dreaming, always mapping our roads in the subconscious landscape.

Techniques include; oil tempera painting; photography, xerography, computer paintbox programs, blueprinting -- all for the express purpose of evoking a feeling of wakeful imagination based on reality.

My concern for authentic imagery has given me reason to create my own vision through eye-to-hand imagination, through the lens and through post-production presentation technologies.

Each technology used has its own pure and intrinsic character celebrated for its own level of excellence. I learn from one technique and use it to benefit the others. Perhaps I will superimpose layers of slides, or project a photo image of a painting onto a photographed subject, using the pentimento that I learned from the many lacquered layers of tempera oil painting.

I'm mostly concerned with the ground or surface of my artwork and how its composition will affect the perception of layered depth.

The world and all its forms are my subjects, but what interests me most subjectively is how I dream the world through my hand and eye.

Sometimes I paint from the scene -- en plein air -- using sketches and photographs to give structure to my compositions. I mix feeling with representation. I create a format which encompasses many viewpoints and distortions to create a reality. I use traditional media (such as charcoal pencil, water-color, gouache, acrylic and oil) and combine them with the most advanced technologies (such as photographs, laser color copies, and blueprints.)

My subjects are as varied as Portraiture; Landscape; Citiscape; Interiors; the Nude; and Photo-Collage what might be best defined as personal-vision art, or DREAMSCAPES.

Crossroads

2003
99CM