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I lived on a large lake that hosted a very large fireworks display every 4th of July. The entire sky above the lake was a blaze of amazing colors and shapes. This is my memory of those annual displays.

My work is either geometric or abstract expressionist. I find it difficult to define because I really don't like the labels. I always assume that the viewer will make the right choice. But for our purposes here, I think I comfortably fit into one of these two categories. My own preference in art falls into that mid-century 1940's to 1970's post modern era. I like the work of Rauschenberg, Pollock, Warhol, Ruscha and Kienholz. I appreciate that entire group of artists who started the whole west coast movement in Los Angeles when most people only thought fine art in museums was worth looking at. I'm also moved by the art of Keith Haring who came later and died too soon. I've been working hard to evolve from a tight, very structured...