I began as a figurative painter. Most of my images were self-portraits. This started an artistic quest for self-knowledge. From self-portraits, I then started painting parts of the human body. This led to a deeper study of human anatomy. My search was divided into the three layers of a human being: the external, structural, and spiritual. The anatomical study then serves as an image touchstone for an abstraction as interpreted by the spiritual artistic process.

The questions raised by my search can never be answered or completed by a single statement. I feel confined by the usual convention of a single image or compositional format. Several frames of images, a series of paintings, join to complete a statement and constitute one painting or work of art. Each frame has composition and meaning, but the statement is not complete without the relationship of the other frames in the series. The statements from my search are thus a storyboard describing a process. Working with this format of relationships provides a more concrete method for continuing a life-long search.