Artist's Statements

The prints are the structures.

They are no longer depictions of structures, they have become the structure.

Originally the prints were records of what others had built — now, they are the structures that I build.

The prints are Abstractions of imagined structures, objects, cities or landscapes, conveying resonance or connection. They exist bleak & lonely, yet heroic.

The figure is not present, though most prints reference man-made structures — those which the figure built before he gave up & left. The disintegrating remains of a dream that was felt strongly, acted upon, & then failed.

I blend influences of Futurism & Constructivism — art that was made with great passion when anything was possible — with an eye that sees how the built-work of brilliant dreams physically fades & ages, & still remains as inspiring.

Abstractions of a mental state.

The logic of factory-grey & desolation — a girl & her printing press, isolation.

The mechanized clicking of thinking — these are objects & landscapes that exist, but no one has seen them.

My logic — logic in general — crumbles & twists, formulates itself in black etching ink.

My etchings are the outcome of my perception of existence — bleak & strange.