Earlier this year, I applied for a Guggenheim Fellowship.

What I didn’t anticipate was how much the application process would demand personally. Not just the formal requirements or the references. My thanks again to Michael, Diane, and Jeff for their time and support. The deeper demand was the excavation. I revisited more than 40 years of work. Slides. Early digital manipulations. Paintings. Mixed media. Thousands of images I hadn’t seen in decades.

I expected fragmentation.

Instead, I found continuity.

The same questions persisted across mediums. Distortion. Human presence. Tension between the real and the artificial. The figure forming and dissolving at the same time.

The work was never scattered. It was circling.

That recognition has sharpened what I’m doing now. The current pieces feel more distilled, less exploratory and more deliberate. Not a break from the past, but a clearer extension of it.

I’ve also begun releasing a moving-image series titled Pondering Eternity.

These works combine constructed visual sequences with original music I’ve been composing, allowing image and sound to evolve together. They unfold as meditations in time. Less narrative, more duration. The work feels like an extension of the paintings into motion.

I’m also sharing two recent works that were included in last month’s Faces & Figures exhibition at the St. Augustine Art Association.

Unapologetic, 2025
Acrylic, texture, and generative collage on paper, 18 × 24 in.

Holding the Center, 2025
Acrylic, texture, and generative collage on paper, 18 × 24 in.

More soon.