The Journey Into Art (Exhibitions)

I was captivated by the clouds in northern New Mexico when I spent some time in Abiquiu. I always liked clouds and had wanted to do a series on them. However the more I gazed, the more I felt it was time to make that project a reality...

Bodie is a preserved mining town and state park in the eastern Sierra part of California. I have spent most of a

day there....twice.

This project though has some interesting roots in my artistic journey as it relates specifically to Bodie...

One windy June afternoon I was wandering along a boardwalk over a delicate grassland near the shore of Mono Lake. Laid down in the field was last year's grasses and up through them came this year's green stalks...

Today I had an open house and reception for the presentation of this project.

It was very well received and gratifying to talk to so many people about my work and its evolution over the last 12 years...

After many months of distraction, I was driving out on the plains of eastern Colorado, when I came over a hill and saw a low, wide valley filled with clouds. I had never seen such a site on the plains...

For millennia the desert has represented a space and experience, where one left all their roles and responsibilities behind to seek solitude, direction, and respite.

Some also intentionally went to the desert to seek wisdom, purpose, and enlightenment...