16"x20" oil on panel. 2024.

Cake decoration credit goes to the artist's daughter, whose favorite color is rainbow, and whose 5th birthday gave the cake its brief raison d'etre.

12"x19" oil on panel. 2024.

This particular grasshopper lived near the beach in Virginia and enjoyed naps on breezy afternoons as of late summer 2024.

18"x24" oil on panel. 2018.

A glimpse of my walk to the grocery store in my old neighborhood, Old Goucher.

18"x18"; oil paint, 24K gold leaf, and oak (the painting and frame are one solid piece). 2024.

There are two distinct lines of thought in this one.

1. My model was a cheap plastic bath toy that one of my children played with for a short time. I find this kind of mass-produced plastic fascinating. Although someone, somewhere, put real time and attention into modeling this nice little fish, objects like this are destined never to be treasured (if noticed at all), and their ultimate fate is to be discarded without a second thought. So I wanted to try to interrupt this one item's path to the landfill, and let it shine with a glory never intended for it.

2. The composition itself reflects my interest in both theoretical physics and cosmopsychist metaphysics. It represents the emanation of the diverse and multifaceted universe out of something simple and pure. The gold lines in the background are intended to suggest the swirling paths traced by decaying particles in old-school "bubble chamber" particle detectors, which gave us our earliest glimpses into the secrets of the creation of the material world.