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Head on Horizon: Redux

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Head on Horizon: Redux 2000-2009, light, (digital projection, 2009 in collaboration with L.J. Douglas), mixed media, dimensions variable

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Writing about one's own artwork is often difficult. The main task is finding palpable meaning to share with others when the work is familiar to the maker. Information can be left out, or omitted entirely, depending on the artist's literary inclination at the time of critique or observational writing.



Lead (Pb) Rips our Engines

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Lead (pronounced /ˈlɛd/) is a main-group element with symbol Pb (Latin: plumbum) and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal, also considered to be one of the heavy metals.



Karma, Old Dogs, and Fine Men



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Small souls, extant and visible in the world, come around to fill in the gaps towards the fruition of our humanity. They offer small things that well founded, and confident people sometimes cannot offer, a recognition of suffering and injustice... and with gentle resolve, they lie quietly at our feet, dreaming magnificent combinations of swift motion, adoration, and devotion.





Stopping Old Bullets

G B-day 1965.jpgThat’s me with a group of my buddies at my birthday party on April 4, 1965. We were a group of rowdy, rough-edged little lads, but old enough to start wondering about important things in our country's history.



The Bridge


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The Chicago River is an artery of great renown in the history of the city, and it connects the lower waterways that lead to the town of Lockport and beyond. Near the old neighborhood where I used to live, the river divides the district, from Chinatown, down through the Northern European neighborhood of Pilsen, and into the South Loop of the Chicago Center.



Drawing in Taverns

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Giving It Up

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Hollenberg Kansas 1955



Erasure: a fiction

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Early example of "Dubya's" work records his difficulty with the project.

Does President Bush ("Dubya") simply affect the image of a thuggish ignoramus, who has wasted over a million lives, nearly bankrupted our economy, made our relationships with other governments sour, while continually threatening our ecosystem,.......or is he the most significant American Artist of the 21st Century?





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