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I began my artistic journey back when I was 6 or seven years old. I found an old portfolio with an art assignment from an early grade. It consisted of a series of pages with original drawings, and pasted on cutout pickers of impressionist paintings. Pretty good for a little kid in a Cathoclic elementary school
Later came oil and acrylic paintings, pen and ink drawings, sculptures, photographs, and a museum show at the Everson Museum of Art in August of 1974.
Along the way I became acquainted with computers when they first came out. I bought into what was then the original Fractal Painter software floppy disks. They came with a thick instruction manual inside a neatly decorated paint can that when opened, gently released the aroma of fresh oil paint and linseed oil. You have to experience it to know the beauty, peace and serenity that comes with the smell of artists oil paint.
I became adept at digital art, and updated my Fractal Painter versions over the years; getting more new features every time, and learning to manipulate the pixels and controls to achieve the same results I got with oil, acrylic, ink, sculpture, and my imagery in general.
I was a natural. No training. no preconceptions. No bad ideas put into my consciousness by art teachers who have no idea what they are talking about.
I created, from the very beginning, uniquely original, unadulterated, works of art. Over the years I kept true to my vision through many different media, but always being true to my creative spark and inspiration.
Then in 2022, came my first experience with Ai art.
In the ensuing two years, I have created over 25,000 works of Ai generated fine art.
I started out as a figure painter and still use the human Face and figure as my model. I also deal in the landscape and in the color field. The content of the resulting imagery, although it has changed over the years and with each new platform, comes as a mirror of the collective unconsciousness.
My work is symbolic in many ways. It is a synopsis of a complex creative process. A mirror of the human soul, spirit, consciousness, and experience.
It’s the only way I can explain what I do. Rather, what is done through me. I am just a conduit through which a deeply intense and collective creative process flows.
It is the spontaneity of the moment. It is the length of the moment and the total experience of that moment that changes.