Visual Essays: Elemental Singularities (Series 1)

This series of mixed media collage constructions is comprised of 12 x 12-inch birch plywood panels and utilize chipboard, photographs, printed ephemera, and correspondence collected over the past forty years with the intent that I would use this material for visual storytelling and self-expression. Since the mid-1970s, I have been inspired by the work of modernists and avant-garde artists such as Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948), Hannah Höch (German, 1889-1979), and Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972). These visual essays express my life’s passions and pains, joys and losses, and the fundamental aspects of my spirit, soul, and male being.