Introduction

I’ve been photographing since I was a kid, first using a tiny 110 Kodak camera, then years later

taking it more seriously, pursued formal training at the San Francisco Art Institute.

SFAI’s style was liberal, a fairly hands-off approach that allowed me to experiment in

photography and in unrelated courses—painting, drawing, filmmaking and performance art, It was a good fit.

Photography

Most of my photos look are in series and projects. Many photos and projects are not posted here to protect them until more completion has occured. It is important to know that I do not crop my images at all. On very rare occasion  something is removed for very specific reasons.

I live in New York City and there is always, everywhere, something going on. The projects are very specific but i wander occasionally to refresh my concentration, shooting different things. For me, it’s important to let viewers wander too, to come

to their own conclusions about what they’re seeing in an image. I admit the results can

be puzzling and maybe even frustrating, but once the photo is “seen”, there’s that

feeling of discovery. some of the images are blurred or abstracted, what I call partials. Many images both photos and drawings are in a collection called partials and will eventually be posted here.

Drawings and Paintings

I learned from an early age the fun of scouring flea markets and later went hunting for a

specific treasure: ephemera. I liked the old paper, its color and texture, the traces of

drawing and scribbling on the old letters, notebooks, schoolbooks, loose leafs, all

leftovers of lives long gone. It seemed a more personal alternative to store bought

paper. Automatically the vintage paper provided a first layer, then the drawing on top

another. So one could see through the drawing to the layer beneath, offering, for me

anyway, depth of meaning. And hopefully for the viewer too. Some very large paintings I've worked on or are working on exist in other collections and are not shown here.