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In our world, we overwhelmingly use words to communicate our ideas to other people. Some ideas, however, are better conveyed visually: The feeling I get walking through the streets of a new city, the intensely personal impressions of a favorite place, and the camaraderie or awkwardness of being inside or outside a party, for example. Two people can also witness the same scene and come away with vastly different impressions. I paint to show how I see things.

This, after all, is all that I can do.

I mean that this is the only thing that I have to offer the world that is uniquely mine to give. I am no expert on politics and my opinions on medicine and philosophy are rarely listened to. The only thing upon which I can speak with authority is the contents of my own mind. And, just as my mind expresses itself in dreams visually, I choose to explain to the outside world what is in my mind visually.

My techniques vary according to the ideas I hope to communicate. I might use a fine finish to depict the expressions on the faces of the figures in one painting, while in another I use a more impressionistic style to capture the way the light filters through the trees on a particularly clear morning. Where the atmospheric conditions are especially expressive and effective in capturing the mood of the painting, they will be more fully developed.

I almost always use oil paint on canvas in my works. Among the advantages of this classical medium are its adaptability to varied techniques, its practicality when it comes to displaying and transporting, and most importantly, its endurance. An oil painting, properly executed, will outlast us all.

So, before you are the contents of my mind. If I am lucky--if we are lucky--these impressions might also resonate with something within your own mind.

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