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How many miles is it to Babylon?--
Threescore miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?--
Yes, and back again.
If your heels are nimble and light,
You may get there by candle-light.

-Mother Goose

My graphic work consists of appropriation, amalgamation and distortion of psychologically charged imagery transformed through doodling, drawing, montage and repeated alteration aided by photocopy and other methods of cheap and easily available reproduction.

By creating fantastic and implausible compositions depicted with humor and irreverence, I explore the relationship between spontaneity and contrivance - committing a sort of static vivisection I engage in a continuous game of exquisite corpse solitaire as a way to surprise and beguile the viewer.

Underling themes are monstrosity, ambiguity, metamorphosis and decay - not in the biological sense of the word, but rather as a radioactive isotope would decay. Themes expressed in these images record a constant, caustic, and ever evolving state - a process and exercise leaving its own detritus behind as visual evidence.

The role we play as participants - passively or not - is giving sentience, perception and ultimately life itself to this evidence; which I believe is the essence and purpose art and creativity performs as a way to explore and reflect this experience.