Sometimes I wonder where my art comes from. I've never been trained. I know next to nothing about other abstract artists. And yet I always seem to know where I want to put the pencil.

My first love is music. I started playing bass in rock groups, then funk, then jazz. Jazz was so technical that I had to study theory for years and expand my palate for tension and abstract expression. I beleive this complexity sets the stage for my visual art proclivities. Almost all of my pictures are abstract elements dancing around a harmonious theme...parts of raw expression placed delicately so as to contribute to the building a unique house (composition) emitting a (hopefully) stunning compound vision. The same process could be used for any jazz solo, simply place your riffs and licks (the elements) in sonic space with an abstract logic cohesive enough to bind them together into a dynamic, refined musical statement.

I hope my art expands your visual tendencies to spot patterns and complexity the way Coltrane, Bley, Vandermark (jazz artists) did for me with their raw, abstract, energetic styles. The flavor of my expressions is a sort of "fine dynamism," a clear and fun logic bringing your eye from dimension to dimension of abstract elements, symbols, patterns and compositions.