Our ability to experience this world is bound by our biological hardware: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, touch etc. Altering perception of these senses affords novel experiences. Ive noticed that by reflecting an image adjacent to itself, another realm unfolds. It looks familiar yet quite different. The images I create are moments captured, amplified, expanded & enhanced by simply reflecting them upon themselves; unfolding a heavenly Rorschach test. My favorite subject is the sunset sky, the golden hour when the infinite moods of our creator floods our sky and paints the restless clouds yet another version of impossible. When this magnificence is reflected upon itself it seems as though the Gods have sent angels to inspire our lives. The sea and its never-ending parade of waves becomes a porthole into the fabric of time; chaos frozen. Alternately, ordinary urban landscapes and human created structures become otherworldly totems beguiling our comprehension of gravity, structure and space. Behold the world with new Īz!

Was it the nursery school sandbox, wood shop in high school, the full on creative emersion at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 90’s(BFA Industrial Design), the apprenticeship(last century) to a master wooden boatbuilder, the past 25 years as commercial artist for film and TV, the Street Skeez skate board project, or the countless hours in my studio painting, sculpting, inventing, creating furniture and photoshopping? Somewhere along the way, I realized I was an artist...