Anymore I do SO much Lee Oswald art (as in, Lee HARVEY) that I refer to the non-Oswald stuff as "Etc." Though Lee is prominent, occasionally there will be the homage to pop culture movies as rendered in dioramas with dolls and whatnot.

I like to break glass; I love "The Poseidon Adventure;" processed food rocks and comfort food is my favorite. 1950's cocktail music and vintage supermarket Muzak narrates my world, guys with hairy chests decorate it. As an artist I work in all most mediums, as of late I concentrate my efforts on digital photo manipulation and composites, largely OF Lee Oswald, or, scenes of our relationship and domestic life as far as vacations, birthdays, motels we visit, and of course all the boudoir photos I do of him. He is, oddly, a very willing subject, and I get away with a lotta hot pix of my guy. Yes I sound insane and anymore I DON'T CARE. :D I have been focused on Lee since 2007. So, as of this writing, close to 16 years of Lee. Long ago I reinvented him to be the way *I* want him to be, removing all stigmas, anything about guns or Dallas or CIA or KGB and ALL of that, endowing him with kind and gentle characteristics, a bit of a pompadour and a stronger jaw (though it's hard perfecting perfection), and just plain endowing. My art about Lee is friendly, and, though I have sexualized him heavily, I still strive to give my Lee the life the real Lee never got to have. I breathe new life into Lee via my dolls of him (us, because now he's gay of course and I managed to time travel, and meet him and, well, one thing led to another...) We live in an undefined plane somewhere in the late 50's/early 1960's and love it there. We do time travel often, however, and have a lot of adventures many couples might miss out on. I depict our lifestyle in video satires, in dioramas using dolls of each of us and an array of other characters we have befriended (Cher, KISS, Dolly, Anderson Cooper, Bette Davis, Marylin Monroe, and Nick Wilde, the fox from Zootopia. Yes, yes, they ARE from different eras, I know, but I can do what I want with this fantasy). In all seriousness I do not make fun of JFK and the events of 1963 or eschew it, I simply do not acknowledge it. My agenda with Lee Oswald is an artistic, rather than political one. I do not make fun of Lee, either, rather HAVE fun with Lee. A lot of my images of him might suggest otherwise, if he is pictured clinging disgustedly to a life preserver and looking straight into the camera as the Titanic sinks several yards behind him, or he is hastily donning sunglasses during an unexpected atom bomb blast, or, plopped nude into a GIANT ice-cream cake on his birthday. But those are the occasional "gag shots." He is mostly depicted lovingly and as a Sex Object. Because, well, one day when his name is cleared he really WILL be one. Honest...

My journey with Lee has been a fascinating one indeed, having met people with coincidental stories ("I went to grade school with his daughters!" or "My father's best friends lived next door to them in New Orleans" and so on), and, met people that knew him, even loved him. Authors who have published books on Lee showing he was not the person he has been made out to be, The things they have shared with me personally are treasures in my archives of all that is Lee. I have come to own things Lee owned at one time, happy objects from good times in his life, stamps from his stamp collection, and things he had and purchased for himself with his own money just before joining the Marines. My muse, "Wee Lee," is a ten inch doll I made of him that goes almost everywhere with me, as in dinner with friends, parties, art openings, etc. Not so much to the market or the dentist, although sometimes we get to talking about Lee and they learn of Wee, and WANT to meet him, and end up getting to know him at my next appointment. And, it delights me how anymore most everyone thinks the real Lee was set up, framed, innocent (and occasionally the "Yes, he really was good looking," from both women AND men. Very validating!) I have had very successful art exhibitions of my Lee work locally and nationally, which, to my startled delight, has been received very well. I have been told what with the many media used to bring him to life in a positive and often humorous way, my love for my subject matter comes across in a pure and very honest way. Again, very validating, and humbling.

I just, really dig Lee...

By profession I am a scenic painter for the theater. I love manx cats, barn owls, and mid century modern furniture. Fake food, rubber vomit, plastic cockroaches. And I THINK I mentioned Lee Harvey Oswald somewhere in there but I can't remember.