Assemblage: objects, oil, charcoal, acrylic on canvas and wood, approx. 53"h x 38"w x 3"deep.

 The relationship of wealth, not to mention freedom, to whiteness is neither accidental nor individual. Governments at all levels, financial institutions, landlords, and real estate firms have created systems to maintain the disparity. 
Several cities enacted racially restrictive ordinances in the early 1900’s, led by Baltimore in 1910. 
Then, during the Depression, the federal government made maps of over 150 urban centers, coding the "financial security” of neighborhoods. The lowest-rated areas were in red, originating the term “redlining." But the map areas weren’t just based on financial experience. Race and ethnic origin were explicit factors.
Banks charged higher interest for loans and mortgages in redlined areas. While rates stayed high, even when overt housing discrimination became illegal, housing value fell, leaving marginalized people, primarily people of color, unable to move, improve their housing, or accumulate wealth, only one way to go: further into the red. 
Landlords who do not want to invest in deteriorating units, predatory lenders, hiring discrimination, neighborhood covenants, informal home sales agreements, and real estate and college admission policies that made even the G.I. Bill inaccessible to minorities have forced the relative wealth of people in redlined areas to decline. Renters and owners, underwater financially, are stuck. 
Even after 80 years, Baltimore city, the City Paper, and others have published maps of incarceration, failure to pass the MD High School Assessments, graduation rates, life expectancy, unemployment, and so forth. You can overlay them on the 1937 map of Baltimore and the worst areas almost exactly correspond to the red and yellow (“declining”) areas in the 1937 “Security” map.
The work features gears and clocks to symbolize the systems and their continuation. You will find maps and posters, along with sections of the original ordinances and covenants. In front, a man on his knees, hands behind his back, and in back, flames. 
 

Sculpture with objects: Epoxy resin, feathers, objects: 21"h x 12"w x 11"d. 2017. Inspired by a tribal mask of the Dan people and the man in the moon. If they had a child, it might look like this.

 Here's an old typewriter with lots of objects added to make it more interesting. And it is typing music. And it has brand-new epoxy resin wings. Lots to see here, so enjoy! , 11"h x 19"w x 15"d. 2017

Found object assemblages: matchboxes. objects, gold leaf, paper. This is an ongoing project, a gift for my son, who is also an artist. I produce one or two of these matchbox assemblages a year; there are currently 18 matchboxes. Sizes vary slightly; approx 1" x 2" x 1/2" each. They are named descriptively for the outside of the boxes, but that is a convenience since there are so many of them. The insides form their own compositions.

Book of collages in sequence. 7"h x 9"w x 1"d. Handmade book, collage, stamped letters, objects.  This book was a gift for my wife. 

Assemblage: Oil on wood, wire, objects. 14"h x 20"w x 6"d. As if the Holocaust weren't bad enough, I envisioned a connection between the prisoner and his dream of children, which turned out to be another nightmare, that of child soldiers in our time. Doing the research was heartbreaking.

Assemblage: oil on wood, gold leaf, thread, objects. 13"h x 10"w x 4"d. This started off as a composition based on the old cigar press. By the time I was finished, the spheres, gears, and incised blue lines and circles seemed to refer to something cosmological, maybe from time before modern cosmology.

Assemblage: Oil on wood, acrylic, photographs, objects. 20"h x 16"w x 2"d.
This assemblage a narrative, but it is open, so you can have your own story or questions.

"Ukraine" Oil on Canvas, 2022
This painting was inspired by a French news photo (from the previous Russian incursion) that just wouldn't let me go. Painting it gave me the opportunity make changes in the soldier's position and emphasize the yellow and blue in the background, portraying the biblical and contemporary references it stirred so strongly in me.