Why Field Notes?
A working scrapbook of images, notes, and fragments gathered over decades—pieces of memory, curiosity, and observation that continue to surface as I revisit a life in art.
Starting Over: Another Painting Life Lesson
You can spend days on a painting and still know it isn’t right.
The problem isn’t the time.
It’s letting go of what you thought was good.
Hot Fire
(Study 12) Hot Fire lives within Pondering Eternity, a series of songs exploring proximity, tension, and what emerges between presence and distance. We move toward warmth — toward light, toward each other.But closeness carries risk. Too near, and something in us changes.Too far, and something in us goes cold. The song sits in that space […]
Lost Days
Lost Days (Study 11) Lost Days explores the acceleration of time as lived experience. Unlike the slower, more contemplative pieces in the Pondering Eternity series, this work moves in fragments—flashing calendar pages, passing traffic, compressed motion, and layered visual interruptions. The effect is intentional: a sense of days accumulating without being fully noticed. Where other […]
Before I Knew Better (Or Maybe I Still Don’t)
I came across a statement I wrote in 1983 during my MFA at Iowa, shortly after interviewing Buckminster Fuller. Reading it now, I can see both the influence and the idealism. Some of it feels naive. Some of it still feels like a direction I haven’t let go of.
Lowe Brothers (1977) — Quad Cities Art Showcase
Ran across this old photograph, Lowe Brothers, which received a 3rd place award in the 1986 Quad Cities Art Showcase.