artist's statement.....

....the art that I create deals with social issues like racism,violence and the human condition.

for the past year I have been working on a series of digital media drawings called Psychictv. Psychictv explores an alternative way of seeing.....a view into the psychic. What I am doing in the Arts will either draw people to it or "repel" them from it.

more and more I feel that the time and the condition of the society that we live in constantly "devalues" the meaning and the humanistic purpose of the Arts. And in restrospective this is a clear and poinant reflection on the direction of our society.

Seabrook Power Plant

Au

Fifty Foot Hose

Roderik de Man

Karlheinz Stockhausen

BeachHouse

Sonic Youth

Eric Dolphy

Bill Dixion Orahestra/17 Musicians in Search of a Sound:Darfur

Noah Howard/Black Ark

Sun Ra

Cick Corea

Steve Hackett

I paint my own reality. --Frida Kahlo

I want to keep these sufferings-being without them would ruin my art. --Edvard Munch

Why is it that all men who are outstanding,in philosophy,poetry or the arts, are melancholic? --Aristole

"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense - he is "collective man," a vehicle and moulder to a higher world of the unconscious psychic life of mankind." (from 'Psychology and Literature', 1930) . Carl Jung [1875-1961]

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”

-Allen Ginsburg from” Howl”[1926-1997]