My work for the past 20 years has used revealing aspects of the urban street. The impact on our contemporary city today is that the landscape is changing for communities. During my observation, I noticed that powerlines are vanishing in many cities. Little by little new construction places utilities underground. I find myself continually returning this subject and I feel I am recordings this history for posterity. In my varied and diverse approaches to making art the context of the work has an impact on the work’s relationship to the viewer. My work ranges from the context of the street, alley to sidewalks, old dirt path (yes, in a modern city) to broken sidewalks and patchwork repairs reminiscent of abstract expressionism in concrete and asphalt. Often focusing on loneliness of the scene as the viewer is the voyeur. Light streams through the fences for effect which washes away the darkness the shadows and giving voice to those who are often unheard behind the drawn curtains in the apartment builds ever present in these works. The work tends to draw in the viewer as co-author and witness, create new and unpredictable cycles of thoughts and associations, providing an experimental chance to challenge one’s perceptions, perspectives and assumptions.

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