I received an Associates
Degree in Visual Communication
from The Art Institute of
Pittsburgh, but my study of
art history, and effort toward
expanding my own work are a
life-long process. So I guess
you could consider me
primarily Self -Taught, an
Outsider Artist, or Auto
Didactic.

I have always been fascinated
by the common world, and
finding the visual poetic
value of them, as commentary
on the spiritual. Things which
most people pass everyday and
fail to notice. A fire
hydrant, the tail frame on a
series of negatives. A
forgotten house or dilapidated
barn, or an elderly man
walking alone.

Once as a boy of about 10, I
went to work with my father
who was a carpenter. Instead
of being much help to him, I
found and entire universe of
odd shaped wood scraps and
bent nails on the floor of the
house where he was working.

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