Musings.... 

On the creation of this art: 

In a practice I facetiously refer to as “Oneiroplastic Voyaging”:), something vague and nebulous suggests itself and I follow in a trance-like state, not knowing where it will take me.  My subconscious plays a leading role in selecting and arranging the fragments that will form a complete image, at times cannibalizing my older artwork.  I purposely facilitate this process and I’m often surprised by the result.  (I may later discover veiled personal meanings in the images that, like dreams, can be deciphered-evidence of subconscious input.

These images may take on a hallucinatory quality and may appeal equally to emotion and intellect.  They may seem to suggest a dramatic narrative, but they defy rational interpretation.  I don’t (consciously) “understand” the images while creating them, and I’m usually in no position to “explain” them (although I comment on my work in the galleries).  My intention is for viewers to freely interpret these artworks by the light of their own imagination and experience, with no prescribed meaning.  I hope they will entertain and reveal aspects of the viewer’s own subconscious.

I don’t have a studio.  I work in a small space (my ‘lab’) with a computer, image editing software, a graphic tablet and pen, a digital image library and a digital camera.  (It hasn’t always been this way.)