Botany inhabits my daily life, both at home and in my profession - as a gardener, I grow and sell plants, shrubs, and trees. Every day, I see amazing examples of nature at play, especially the vivid blossoms that change throughout the seasons that decorate my life. I am constantly using my iPhone to chronicle this marvelous variety of flora - a world filled with wonderful, eccentric colors, shapes and textures – to create abstract and hallucinatory blooms of the imagination. I continue using my phone to play around with the photographs with various apps and filters to see what further astonishes and amuses me. I utilize the resultant images as individual layers, and looking for the surprises that occur, combine the variations to create the final piece. These improvisations are often kaleidoscopic and usually quite painterly, which alters the nature of photography itself. In this way, I try to bring out the unseen, intensifying the mysterious natural qualities that so intrigue me, to give other viewers as passionate and enigmatic an experience as I, myself, have enjoyed. Through this artistic endeavor, the viewer becomes my collaborator, traversing the entire adventure from the personal to the universal - surely the measure of any work worthy enough to be called art.

After a long, rich life collaborating in film, music, and especially theater (principally as a sound designer in NYC), I have turned to photography as my primary means of creativity. My tastes are stimulated by an eclectic spectrum of artists from an array of art forms, eras, and genres, whose works never fail to encourage me. I’d like to note that I’ve always regarded Grandma Moses as a true icon, and now that I’ve passed the age of 70, I feel closer to her than ever.