An object's textures, its forms and its colors should speak of its history, where it has been, its line to now and its struggle to be. All the colors and the textures of the great old cities speak of this journey: multi-layered, multi-faceted, creating a newer and newer skin over an older and older skeleton.

My work shows this layering: the false starts, the dead-ends ... overpainting, shapes disappearing, only to re-appear somewhere else, always new, always unexpected discoveries, moving a color, a line until it finds its home, yet somehow being able to sense where its been.

I love the use of discarded materials, the jetsam of society, overpainting older canvases, the use of rusted metals ,etc., bringing the rejected past to the all consuming present, the old to the new. Then and now co-exist, one taking from the other to form a whole, as do those old cities and those old cultures that I find so fascinating.