My abstract, non representational work has always been the core of my visual language, and interestingly was in place and evolving even as a child, long before I happened to bump into anything that we could refer to as mind expanding.  My earliest memory of wondering what's  "out there", or "inside" is of  lying on a faux leather couch on summer break after the 3rd grade in the early 1970's and pressing my palms onto my eyelids until I started to see crazy spiraling, stained glass like patterns.  This fascinated me, it's amazing I didn't damage myself.

     As a little kid in the 70's I had a lot of children's art supplies, and art based toys, and if you can picture the 70's, you know how "grooooovy" that decades "look" and design aesthetic was as it  digested the 60's. I'm convinced that although I definitely had a predisposition for using geometric shapes and repetition, this was very much reinforced by the building and art making toys that I was given.  I had all kinds of building stuff; a set made of neon colored plastic geometric shapes of all kinds, colored tilings to stick onto plastic grids,  and of course, LEGOS!

     It's quite obvious that these creative products were designed by people who were a product of the previous decade and all that baggage, and I was somehow hardwired to eat it up with a spoon.  i'm always drawn to abstract work thats's insanely bright, bouncy, curvy, and in your face.