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2019 has been a year of growth. I added new work to three of my ongoing projects and started a new series/project that spins off ideas initiated by the Causality drawing. New drawings have been added to the Consciousness Drawings and the third painting in the Primitive Emotions series has been completed. I continue to add essays to my blog which now has over 75,000 views from over 100 countries. A recent essay on Virtuosity went over 1300 in a matter of months, evidence that there is world-wide… more
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Visual Commentary

These paintings are oil over collage, a technique that employs the research that went into the subject of the painting, and the hidden influences on our contemporary world. They aim to question misguided values and dangerous trends and have run parallel to my other work for more than thirty years.
  • DomiNation.jpg
    DomiNation.jpg
  • City Planning (detail)
    City Planning (detail)
    The collage beneath the road shows satellite imagery of Baltimore and other cities where racial divisions are amplified by major highways dividing the neighborhoods.The collage under the sky shows the difference between rich and poor in the environmental pollution.
  • The Production of a Free Workforce
    The Production of a Free Workforce
    The collage beneath the painting shows articles about private prisons and the emphasis on laws that will increase the number of inmates, and about the racial disparities in the prison population.
  • Frontmen
    Frontmen
    Collage and video loop show the faces of those who kept selling war in Iraq with images of nuclear weapons and fear.
  • Enter Fortress America
    Enter Fortress America
    Collage shows corporate influence behind the scenes in politics.
  • Homeland Security 1: Neighborhood
    Homeland Security 1: Neighborhood
    Collage shows local Baltimore neighborhoods to consider the role of the US as aggressor.
  • Homeland Security 3:Park
    Homeland Security 3:Park
    Collage reflects on the vulnerability of nature and the influence of the arms industry on aggression.
  • Rapacity
    Rapacity
    Transfers beneath the painting reflect the exploitation of the planet's resources.
  • Avidity Redux
    Avidity Redux
    Transfers beneath the painting show the historic monuments and architecture being destroyed by greed.
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    • Consciousness Drawings

    Throughout my career, the pastel and colored pencil drawings I use to explore consciousness, reflect on its many levels, and how states of mind are influenced. Exploring the edges  of an emotional state I use clouds to  establish the emotional weather as a boundlessness that we try to pin down. The drawings are philosophical in their intent, questioning the assumption that consciousness is individually localized.
    • Cool Under Fire
      Cool Under Fire
    • Collapse
      Collapse
    • advent.jpg
      advent.jpg
    • Explication
      Explication
    • Consciousness
      Consciousness
    • Correlation
      Correlation
    • Invasion
      Invasion
    • resonance.jpg
      resonance.jpg
    • Baggage
      Baggage
    • Messages
      Messages
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