The paintings, drawings and sculptures displayed here represent work that has evolved from my preoccupation with cartoon smoke. I have always been fascinated by cartoons and comics particularly Warner Bros. and Marvel. The explosion clouds that wafted after an exploding cigar, Elmer Fudd's rifle blasts, or one of Green Goblin's smoke bombs were the closest external equivalents I had to the swirls I saw inside my eyes as I passed from waking to sleeping. In that hypnagogic state, ideation and imagination occurred. It was that state I tried to capture. After 9/11 the smoke reverberated with violence which gave way to anger at the direction the world was taking. Sometimes when the smoke cleared, images emerged and whole regions of thought and mute objects manifested. This is where we are today.
