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Many paintings in this series look at boundaries in time and space. This piece uses pelicans as shapes traveling through visual space and also time. There are four different skies from different times of day over Trunk Bay, St. Johns. One of the quadrants is done in gray scales suggestive of the era before color photography. The pelicans circle (counterclockwise) in their traveling wave as they often do before skimming the surf for fish. The seagulls (clockwise) movement seems to emerge and then disappear through the red orange area. The outer (night) quadrant has the Southern Cross in the sky and the very bright fireflies found on many of those islands. There id a Blue Heron flying counter to the pelicans to help move the energy to the center. I think about shapes,forms and energy of realistic things much like and abstract painter.

My family owned a technical illustration firm so I spent part of my youth observing illustrators produce impossibly complicated projects for Fortune 500 clients. The advantage of my exposure to the profession was simply that I knew the seemingly impossible could be done and that it required an unbelievable work ethic to accomplish.I was not that interested in an illustration career, but I loved to paint. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to a BFA program and then to an MFA degree program in painting. I have had highly divergent influences. After teaching for several years for Ohio U I wrote the art degrees at Shawnee State University and became their first department chair before retiring from FT teaching in 2005. I moved to...