Artist’s Statement

Communication fascinates me. Recent trips to visit family members in Los Angeles and Boston led me to examine the communication that exists in big cities in my current series of works. While in Los Angeles I explored the crumbling ruins of the L.A. Zoo. I crawled through narrow corridors entering large spaces that used to be animal cages. Local graffiti artists had been in these areas before me. The walls were covered with colorful markings, words and images. Some of these I could not understand but was still amazed at their beauty. Communication is not just the expression of words but in its simplest form is the transfer of thoughts through images.

On the east coast, while traveling through Boston’s North End, I was led in another, yet similar direction. As I walked the piers and quays of the Boston harbor, ropes, buoys, and debris littered my path. These forgotten pieces of Boston tied to the sea spoke to me in their own form of communication.

My latest works are based on the graffiti I saw while in Italy strolling down narrow alleys on ancient walls. I was surprised at every turn by the colorful characters left as notes on the gray brown walls built a long time ago. The contrast of this old and new communication each carry its own story of old and new.