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Loving repetition in the arts I always produce objects with a theme or genre: beginning in 1976 my vernacular architectural models of the American roadside, began as a ribbon of carefully lit models along a Masonite roadway, positioned in a gallery space filled with sand: aha!  Phoenix from the air, 1937.  The models evolved into the purity of their signage, which then detoured to derivatives of the American flag.  Still a mystery to me, perhaps fueled by a visit to an aquarium, I began to make fish, all sizes and shapes, always full of color.  The Salton Sea, which should interest all of us who live in this broad region, also fuels the notion that given enough time, its stock of fish might morph into some of the vividly bright examples I produce.  Moving to California in 2008 from Connecticut, I returned “home” to cars, my first and greatest love.  As a sidebar to them I also build robots from scrap sheet metal, industrial gauges, and plumbing parts.  I freely appropriate ideas from book illustrations, car magazines from the 1950’s to the present, and visits to the many hot rod and “kustomized” car shows in Southern California (with stops at aquariums to catch up on fish).   Color is critical to me.  I study and experiment freely.  My work might best be described as carefully contrived folk art, with critical attention to proportion and color.