I offer my drawings of the human figure--many of which are based upon myself, since I cannot afford models--as a kind of protest against both the prudery and the hypersexuality so common to American culture. The prudery finds the body either so repulsive that it must be 'conquered' or so precious that it must be hidden. The hypersexuality seems to see the body as nothing but a machine for sexuality and reproduction. Both of these viewpoints are skewed, I believe, trying either to make something we all share--a human form--into something almost sacramental or to reduce the interaction of the body with its environment to nothing but sexual pleasure. The body is our interface with the world and life; the vehicle by which we see, feel, hear, touch and smell; the contact point between otherwise very isolated minds. A related point: I don't draw "nudes," arty classical depictions of the human body as object--I draw people who just happen to be naked at the moment.