These paintings were inspired by the geometry and color/contrast of signs;
designed to get our attention, or games - best laid plans. The sense of
flight and its impossibility is depicted in a sort of topographical
illusionism in both the diamond shaped kite like painting 'Duped' and in
'Trouble'. The composition includes the illusion of moving parts and
stationary areas achieved with color on a flat plane. The small painting
'Normal Traffic Conditions' uses paint to approximate the bright flashing
liquid crystal display which tells us nothing, or no delays.

I work within the tradition of hard edged abstraction. Maybe every place
that we thought was hard is soft. Like Richard Serra has said, 'Everything we
choose in life for its lightness soon reveals it's unbearable weight.'

I use an abstract framework, the language of signs and games, taking
sometimes for inspiration the simplified design of children's toys, to
represent real life scenarios and life situations; it is a way to connect
with them or memorialize them. Travesty and tragedy are mourned in the
language of color, and these simplified formal compositions.