Letting the idea come to me; how it starts.

I was watching my favorite college Basketball team, The Hartford Hawks, and the announcer talked about how their best player had to not force the play, but wait for it to come to him. I like that as a metaphor for art, although I usually try to stay away from sports metaphors, they seem too easy. A lot of my work starts with an idea that comes from somewhere else or something else. Looking at photographs from archives is one source. I’ll say more about that in another blog. Travel is another source of ideas. The images of animals came from a safari in South Africa. It was an armchair safari, very controlled and protected, but the animals were real and exciting. ‘China’, ‘China Line’,  ‘Vegas’ use images from travel. Time passing finds its way into my work in different ways. The pieces that are a series of Photographs, such as ‘Stan Fishing', ‘Turkey’, ‘China Line’, ‘Timeline’, which are in the Relief Sculptures section of my site, all are about a sequence of time passing.

If you’re curious about a specific piece, send me an email and I’ll tell you its story.