" Morality Tales" are a series of transparencies and paint on worked aluminum.
....and I supose that is where my visual stories begin;  with a photograph of mine, a setting, or a person and then a metaphorical story emerges, collaged and painted, and carved into the aluminum.

The works in“Morality Tales” are an ongoing commentary about man’s folly; personal, political and environmental, and my attempt  to illustrate the things we humans grapple with confronting our human dilemmas.

For many years I was an independent , commercial photographer. I did documentary, editorial and institutional work; a career that allowed me into many worlds, and I was free to roam, to find the story. . Now, I use the photographic image less as I make my stories, relying more on drawing,hand work and allowing the work to inform me. 

“More Morality Tales” are archival pigment prints, digitally created from my files, and some with painted mats.

I was raised on the Greek myths, and Grimms & Anderson's fairy tales, and I suppose that is where my visual stories began.

 

 
This series began after I developed a  love of photographing through windows of moving vehicles. While unsuccessful at shooting from a car, I took these images  either from the window of an airplane, or from the window of a train.  A viewpoint  that reveals a narrative, a patterning of the land, and  the freedom of applied color.
. The photographs themselves are the sort of images I delight in finding.

 
 
PARTICLES  ALL
 
This work attempts to explore visually and poetically, what 
can only be understood mathematically and cannot be seen by the eye at all.
 
 After a career of photographing people, places and things, I rediscovered my interest in abstraction, as well as a delight in exploring the place where physics and eastern philosophy intersect. These images are not illustrations; rather they explore such statements as “It has been concluded that the visible universe represents only a small part of the universe. The rest is formed by an invisible substance called dark matter. It’s existence has been suggested by experimental evidence, yet it’s characteristics remain unknown.”
These images, particles or pearls tossed across the cosmos, wonderlands of theory, are an attempt to translate that theory into poetic imagery.
The work consists of archival pigment prints 51x35, and painted and worked aluminum with transparencies.

All the things we cannot see .The virus,  the lies, the illusions.I started this series in march 2020.As I progressed with this thought I  included images from the "Just Before Times".
What Started as minimalist has evolved, and other images drawn in, and color is back.
Glass beads and oil paint on worked aluminum. Sizes range from 12x16 to 36x36.