What can an artist say after 50 years of being one? Well, it is work. It is fascinating and interesting and involves discipline and dedication and all of that leads to endless possibilities. I started off as a biochemistry major in college when by the third year, the formulas on the blackboard became paintings. I lost focus unless I transformed the laboratory to a studio where I began a journey to another kind of exploring.

The essence of it all was and still is a motivating factor. How, then, to proceed, especially during the early 1960's in the aftermath of the abstract expressionists? I started with a backbone of a chicken and then proceeded use the cube as fundament form of essence. To succeed, I needed to study all the Masters of the Renaissance Period through the Impressionist and beyond. Paul Cezanne as the structuralist par excellence along with Van Gogh and Matisse for their color supremacy and Paul Klee for his wit and humor were major influences. That was not enough. There was and still is the need to gain a grasp of form which led to thousands of drawings of rocks, old machine parts and, finally, the human face with its variety of expression and mood.

It has been a long trial-and-error process with long gaps in my work as I wandered throughout the nation. I covered almost every state, testing the realities. Amazingly I have managed not to physically lose my work by finding storage spaces here and there. A few years ago, a place of my own place.

I use art, also, to express humor resulting in over 4,000 human drawings and cartoons which I divided into book form. These volumes of 1000-300 pages show the variableness of human relations and are divided into the following themes: Robots, State of Mind, Hats, Chairs, Hair Style, Auto and Human Shapes. I love to find objects from streets and garbage cans for collages that are glued onto panels of wood showing a lighter side of human portrayals.

My first show was in Taos, N.M. at the age of twenty-two. I continue to paint and have fun creating cartoons which reflect the human condition. I am currently in the process of publishing a series of my cartoon illustrations in book form.