Fun Fact: The word calamari was borrowed into English from 17th-century Italian, where it functioned as the plural of "calamaro" or "calamaio." The Italian word, in turn, comes from the Medieval Latin noun calamarium, meaning "ink pot or "pen case," and can be ultimately traced back to Latin calamus, meaning "reed pen." The transition from pens and ink to squid is not surprising, given the inky substance that a squid ejects and the long tapered shape of the squid's body.

As a perpetual seeker of wonder and stimulation, most of what I create mimics these traits. It is driven by curiosity and is the result of meandering through a medium. Influenced somewhat by hard-edge geometric painters such Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely, on one hand, and biomorphism and surrealism with a dash of M.C. Escher on the other, I seek to make art for other curious people. I invite the viewer to be an active participant in what it is they’re seeing, to allow the synapses in their own brain to fire and connect and create pathways that it hasn’t before because now it’s taking in information never before seen. People tend to ask, “Well, what IS it?” when they see my work, and almost always my answer is, “It’s whatever you want it to be” which is always true.

My hope is that people take comfort in knowing my work is a space to truly allow their imagination to wonder and to break away from the need to categorize it as anything. To find serenity in the place being and not needing to know. Although I would love to hear thoughts and feelings about how you take the images in and relate them to your own life, ultimately, it is simply to be experienced. It is my pleasure to bring these one-of-a-kind visions into this realm and share them with you.

Thank you for being on the planet with me. Thank you for your interest in my gift.

I appreciate you.