Blue Print for a Spirit House Virtue Triumphs (When the Devil Sleeps) I although African ancestral imagery predominated

although African ancestral imagery predominated

The birds in my work are a vision from my dream world which I consciously decided to represent the conflict in our environment between nature and man's tools of destruction

Perhaps my platforms could be seen as starting points

Exciting experiences are validated by the same risks which render them exciting

Blue Print for a Spirit House Virtue Triumphs (When the Devil Sleeps) I although African ancestral imagery predominatedFrom the Artist I really began by learning to draw (self taught) as a teenager. I learned to paint in my 20s with some classes at Northwestern University, while getting my degree in political science. Living in New York City in the mid 80s introduced me to found objects discarded on the street, which became sculpture in my studio. After I received my MFA in sculpture from SUNY Albany in 1988, I started drawing people and then painting landscapes. In