A chess piece, the Castle.  A Ceramic Sculpture in the works. Approximately 3 and a half feet in height.

This is a brief summary of my creative path:

Art and its expression found me well before my forth year. There was a community art festival in my neighborhood, and for the first time I participated in something outside my family life. One of the mediums available was sand painting; the use of different colored sands to create a picture. Lots of children made pretty pictures: sunsets and cacti and other static displays. I created a totem pole, which told the story of a hunt with a compassionate brave and what happened when he caught his prey. I won an award for the sand painting, but more importantly, I had found a new way to have my voice heard. Ever since those early days artistic expression has been a gratifying source of personal communication.
Since childhood I have worked in countless different medias. From age-appropriate watercolors and pastels (only to return to them at later stages) to acrylics and oils. For grammar school peers I did felt pen and liquid embroidery t-shirts, my first experience with the fact that people would actually pay for my artistic abilities.
Expression grew through various means. I worked in ceramic sculpture (see the chessman on this page; a privately commissioned piece), stone sculpture (mainly alabaster), and metal sculpture; both oxy-acetylene and arc welding. One of my favorites was percussional sculpture, what I called “garden art”. These were large pieces utilizing such material as my ceramic sculpture, copper pipes, copper sheet metal, and driftwood. Envision if you would an expression like the ceramic chess piece, beard blowing in the wind, with long copper pipes hung from the base with a beaten copper sail twisting and striking the chimes, creating a gentle harmony pleasing to the spirit for years and years. Generally the size required that the sculpture be installed as each component was completed, and then be attached to the houses themselves or trees of some substance. That was a very satisfying part of my path, and very well received.
I discovered computers back before the first IBM compatibles and well before the Internet. This was the very beginning of the bulletin board services (bBS). Back then I developed system menu designs utilizing extended ASCII character set and ANSI.SYS control codes to emulate color animation. I used the same techniques for batch file menu systems for my PC clientele to make their systems more decorative and user friendly.
Using a software package known as GRASP I manipulated the x-y-z coordinates of bit-maps to create animation. My work was used by storefront computer retailers to demonstrate the new VGA monitors back when the best was 256 colors with 320 x 200 resolution. This was a very successful program, and in a sense I received my first professional accolade when the demo was “borrowed” without permission and began to show up everywhere.
In proprietary (thus unavailable for viewing) work, I was approached by Wang-Tech Technologies of Simi Valley, California to create the graphic design product demonstration for presentation at the computer industry show, COMDEX 1986.
Further graphic design work was done on behalf of Forth, Inc. of Manhattan Beach, California; a software company specializing in process control for manufacturing.
Currently I am developing web sites, working on art-projects that express my thoughts and feelings, some amateur Photography and honing my skills in the Macromedia Flash and other forms of interactive media, including video. I remain open to the latest tools and technologies that can enhance my freedom of expression.