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My instinct to make pictures started, like most young people, visual thinkers or otherwise, with a pencil or crayon. My classmates in grade school breezed ahead with words and numbers; and though these did not stop me, my preferable means of processing and recording my growing world was with pictures, and my favorite picture making tool was a pencil. Perhaps it is the comfort of doing something available to me since childhood or perhaps it is the mesmerizing act of making a line, any line, on a piece of white paper. Whatever the reason, I love to draw more than ever. Put a pencil or chunk of charcoal in my hand and I am happy as a clam.
Drawing shows up in my paintings and prints, and over time, the line between the one or the other is harder to comprehend. So the work categorized as "drawing" occasionally crosses over in to painting and even printmaking. In truth, the longer I make images, the more difficult all of these categorizations become. The drawing shown to the left, "A Man, Two Dogs, and a Bird Fully Engaged" is a part of a series of print /drawings, whose subject is more significant to me than the means I may have used to get there. But, the marks are my hand writing and, as such, connect me to to subject, and I hope me to you.
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