"City" captures the sense of isolation even though surrounded by people. Before I used music to convey my struggles with mental illness, I used visual art. This is what I felt like after the psychotic breakdown. In the late 2010s, Mental Health America used this image in their "Mental Health Month" campaign. I also received an award from Yumi Hogan, Maryland's First Lady, for participating and performing in a "Mental Health Awareness" art show in Annapolis.

I feel this represents what it would be like if I could ever escape the shackles that held me back. Digitally enhanced color markers.

"Escape" is a rather accurate expression of my mood at the time: me as the orb, desperately trying to escape the clutches of an all consuming, evil force. The problem here is, no words or images can truly explain the the hell I was going through, 24/7. Acrylic

Another visualization of escape, of flight, of potential freedom. Like a mantra, I kept telling myself again and again, "Hang On. Things Will Get Better!"

To me, "Flight" signifies the desperate frustration of wanting to flee the mental agony. The being has been at it so hard and long, that its arms and body are distorted. Still it tries ... and tries ...

A tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Opening for him at DC's Ambassador Theatre in 1967 had a profound effect on my music direction. The only other time this happened to me was I when I heard jazz pianist/composer Bill Evans in an intimate motel setting in Rochester NY (1972). I just had to learn how to do that!!!

In the 1980s, a number of my pen and ink drawing became newsletter covers. This was one of them.

Title inspired in part, by Berkeley Breathed cartoon "Outland." I suspect M. C. Escher had a hand in this too. The original pen and ink rendition was later digitally enhanced. The overlapping landscapes are a reflection of my inner world.

I did this on paper that was larger in size then what I particularly used, not that it mattered. Of special interest are the two beings and what they represent. One thought is that they're highly stylized prehistoric beasts, or maybe it's a glimpse into the future.

What we see here of course, is only a segment of a vast celestial Rhythm Machine.