"Don't be so hard on yourself." - Ram Dass

My passion has always been pictures and words, particularly those secret worlds which throw ambiguity into stark relief. I like things which are more skewed than not: crooked and haphazard, haywire but fastidious. The elements of my work often seem generated by some nervous pineal gland. Amongst the forms there is an abstracted sense of desire, a feeling of touching, and yet not quite touching.

One of my greatest fears is, artistically speaking, the "fear of flying": the fear of letting go, non-attaching one's desires, leaving the body. Maybe for this reason, so many of the elements in these prints seem to careen fitfully across some strange celestial skyscape. There is often a feeling of simultaneity- things on different planes of experience happening at once.

Color as a direct, emotional experience is one of my main concerns. Many of my monotypes utilize an ink-blending technique that creates an ethereal, color-field spaciousness.

My body of images includes flying and floating figures, screaming persons, animal spirits, meditators, body parts, strange architecture and plant life. Such works as India's Mysterious Power to Move Minds contain visceral re-inventions of form. The content of these works is not meant to be translated literally, rather it is flexible and metamorphic. Urban life in San Francisco, as well as travel in India and Nepal, continue to be a source for my restless, confounding imagery.

My technique involves hundreds of personally created stencils, as well as surprising "found objects" actually peeled off the streets of San Francisco. I cut my stencils from a thin plastic and delineate them with surface incisions using an etching needle. I also use paper and fibrous materials and layer these with evocative textures. I then ink the stencils up with rollers (sometimes using additional brushwork), and place them upon the already fully inked "background" metal plate. Since I only pull one print off each plate, these monotypes exist as truly one-of-a-kind works of art.

Seeking clarity within the mystery, I very mindfully create these worlds although I depend on them to reveal themselves to me. My artwork is never what I expect it to be.