My drawings, paintings and sculptures are necessarily figurative, not only because they rely on the object portrayed, but because the figure, humankind, as a physical organism and as a complex social creature, is the pivot around which my creative world moves. If there is a common expressive theme in my work, perhaps it is that I think humanity, harried, debased, and brutalized by a harsh world, is still powerful in creative spur and enduring in the posture of love. As a maker and as an observer, I am very interested in the notion that any act of perception is an act of creation. I strive to create work that has a type of openness that insists on a degree of figuration, but that also allows for the building blocks of the works to exist as distinct entities. I strive to create a situation where the viewer is able to project meaning on my carefully constructed figures while also considering the beauty, vitality and expressiveness of individual lines, textures, tones, colors, shapes and forms.