Telescope Highway from Spuyten Duyvil 2022

Spirit Klecksographs 2022-24

With Sumi ink hidden figures and patterns emerge from the water

Medusa

Sphinx

3 Harpies

Microdots-- for Kim Lyons

Mousus Aurelius

Tower

Ganesh

Ganesh 2

Odyssey 1

Odyssey 2

Bird Mountain

Creatures of the Night

Demon

Bats

Crow

Climate March

Sky Temple

Witches--for Elaine Equi

Homage to Redon

Ribbons

Aztecrobot

Wedding

Odyssey 3

Forest Spirit

Moth Queen

Crab

Bubble

Apparition

Illumination

Full Moon

PAINTINGS

Motherboard Series

Gouache on paper

22"X30"

In my paintings I have always been inspired by the beauty of machinery's mysterious complexity, and by the pataphysical and fantastical machines of early modernism. Now, in the digital age, I am enchanted by the implicit abstract beauty of circuit boards and by the variety of interrelated shapes and patterns all adapted to fit the rectangular background of the board. I am fascinated by the connectors, like bridges, that carry information between the components. Each geometric shape represents an electronic function, yet, except for their designers, few other individuals understand those functions.

My imaginary motherboards are hybrids that incorporate fragments of elements from circuits and motherboards. These elements are combined with art from the past, thus linking past and present, and pointing to the future.

Metaphorical machines might encompass imaginary processes that can enable us to communicate with the ancient Mayans, Egyptians, and Romans, or with the afterlife, in the hidden realms that ordinarily elude our conscious awareness.