The sources of my low relief, mixed media work are specific segments of the landscape observed during walks; segments which show the effects of natural and manmade occurrences on their surfaces. These altered surfaces are encountered on roads and sidewalks, in vacant lots and median strips, along the edges of water. They have been affected by erosion, alteration, reconstruction, abrasion and decomposition, with any one of these actions alone or in concert revealing or concealing layers of other surfaces.

The pieces explore some of the relationships between the manmade and natural (asphalt vs. earth; cement vs. moss; tar vs. sand) and the energy expressed by each (push/pull; control/uncontrol; balance/counterbalance). They also explore the effects of covering with asphalt, paint or debris, restricting by cement or stone, layering with tile over cement over earth or wearing away with use.

Abraded and repaired surfaces possess texture and colors accumulated through years of action and reaction between man and nature. They are a coalition of indeterminate time, both long and short. Today’s cement next to the masonry and cobblestones of earlier eras suggests an accumulation over long periods, while transitory time manifests in the sudden wetting and drying of sand or more gradual change in a crack, which gains visual significance through an accumulation of debris.