This site gets little use on my part. I suppose it would be a long term goal to continue to catalog my work here. I have done very little new work over the prior 2 years, though the few pieces I have created really seem incredible to me. I returned about a month ago, (oct. 7, 2007) from hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the last 5 months. My girlfriend hiked the Appalachian Trail (approx. 2200 miles) from Georgia to Maine this past spring->fall. I joined her in Southern Virginia, until Maine, for 1550 of the miles. It was an incredible experience, that I hope to funnel into some artwork in the new month or two. in 5 days we will pack both of our cars with what we can and start driving from Michigan, heading to Oregon to take our next steps in life after the hiking trail. Neither of us have been there, but we have some friends who we will stay with until we can get a job/find an apartment. Everyone tells us what a wonderful place it is--so we're going! Hope to find myself creating new pieces during this time in my life.

Thanks for anyone and everyone who has ever taken the time to comment, view, and browse my work. I think deviant art is a wonderful website and there are so many wonderful artists that I can be inspired and humbled by.

realized some things about my uber-lengthy descriptions, esp. when I compare with others, who tend to leave the art to speak for itself.

So, while I may have my own stories to add to the art, I realized it is entirely limiting to include them. Much of what we create, experience, the world, is made of words. That said, art and music are beyond words, they are a perception of something pure, something that has not been distilled into language. A lot is lost in that process.

By writing my piece about each artwork, if the viewer reads my words, created is a linguistic framing for the perception, compressing the experience of it into a rationalization that can be grokked. This is not the aim of my art. This can be done on the viewer's own terms, but I hence forth will refrain from the personalized paragraphs about pieces, save for artistic details. Why compress a perceptual ink drooled imagination of cosmic butterflies in search of galactic nectar into mere words, why do that?

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