Back from above, 12.25 × 10 in., oils, bronze powder, charcoal, pastel and oil crayon on Linorg paper, 2003 Art looks beneath the surface of life, and for me the place to look has always been the body.   When disability made it hard
Palegold hands, 10.5 x 13.5 in., oils, bronze powder, charcoal, pastel and oil crayon on Moulin de Fleurac, 1999
Bluegrey stretching/kneeling figure, 9.75 x 12.5 in., oils, bronze powder, charcoal, pastel and oil crayon on Bergerac, 2000 Asymmetry at my body’s core brings the need for a subtle effort of balancing, which keeps me engaged with the workings o
Thoracic spinal nerves study, 6 x 7 in., Twinrocker Rotunda, 2020
Double hands, clasping (brown-pink), 10.5 x 8.75 in., Twinrocker Yale, 2017
Spinal cord (cauda equina) with nerve roots [detail], 6.5 x 8.5 in., charcoal on Twinrocker Rotunda, 2011 Drawing connects me to that ongoing work of balancing – to the consciousness, and even the creativity, of the body itself.  I work to e
Spinal nerve landscape (#1), 11 x 7.75 in., Twinrocker, 2016
Spinal cord butterfly with floating colors (red crystalline), 11 x 15 in., 2017
Emerging nerves (yellow+red), 7.25 x 9.75 in., Twinrocker, 2025 In my latest work, I’ve been venturing ever deeper into inner space. It’s at the locus of pain – the place where my spinal cord and emerging nerves are most constricted – that the s
Cord closeup (red crystalline) [large detail], 11 x 11 in. on Twinrocker Rotunda,  2025
Spinal cord cross-section (blue cell), 8 x 10.25 in. on Moulin de Fleurac, 2025 My nerve landscapes are becoming looser – still tied to anatomical reality, but less defined, with a different balance of real and imagined and a different relationsh
Arbor vitae of the cerebellum (mauve crystalline), 11 x 6.75 in., Twinrocker Yale, 2018
Nerve landscape (indigo + light), 8.75 x 11.5 in., Twinrocker Yale, 2025
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