What, Why, and How:

In elementary and part of high school I attended a school situated across the street from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There were no admittance fees then, and very few attendees. I spent almost everyday after school walking the museum halls before I caught my bus across town to home. I loved no other place on earth more, except the woods in the country.

As an art student I came to learn that working in the realm of floral representation didn’t hold a strong rating beyond “decorative.” Many years of painting abstractly became confident, yet safe and gossamer. As this became the status quo my enthusiasm seemed to pallor.

The fact that our earth is loosing species hourly, daily, and terminally added fire to my desires to work from botanical and aviary sources which had ignited a spark in me so long ago.

Dangerous as it seemed, I let go my warnings from the past, to journey to the realm of the forbidden with what I hope is intelligence and postmodern sensibilities.

This work, therefore, is my overdue investigation of nature’s beauty, in hopes of eliciting awareness by seduction. I am exploring and describing using various incarnations of acrylic paint as my medium. I strive to overcome any enigmatic bias there might be in subject matter, alluring color, and the desire to make something “beautiful” by engaging myself with my materials and being fully aware of my process. I ask the viewer to re-evaluate and consider the awe of our natural world, and to re-examine the realm of the resplendent.