Throughout my adult life I have been searching for
a sense of balance and order. When I was a farmer,
that search manifested itself through my attempt at
regenerative farming.  Now as an artist, I have exam-
ined both the success and failure of that period of my
life and realize the direction it has given me. I have
since discovered my place in a continuing regenerative
process, one that gives credence to my past experiences
through their assimilation into my artistic expressions.
Interaction of past and present personal experiences
serve as source material for my visual vocabulary and
continually informs the structure of my image.
   I present isolated aspects of life in the form of texture,
shape and color. By observing a place, I begin to feel each
surface with my visual hand. The texture of a rope, the
richness of soil, the ruggedness of concrete, the brittleness
of a bale spark an emotional response to my bonding of
place. Each work becomes a comparison of visual meta-
phors that describe the differences and similarities between
specific time periods in my life.
   My work is a synthesis of my personal time and place.
It is a new and vital creation where the natural cycle of life
continues through an awareness of my past and my future
balanced with the reality of today.