At the left is the tragic fire that robbed Bruz Fletcher and Casey Roberts of their home and killed his pet monkeys. The incedent was cruelly mocked by the LA Times. Casey refashioned soup cans plucked from the ashes into a decorative floral wall hanging that was placed on the set of Ingrid Bergman's first American Film.

All these paintings still have a long way to go.

Below: Bruz and his cousin Laurel - Louisa's daughter - run away at age 8. They pretend that they walked all the way to Indiana from New York City and maintain their story to the cops.

An ode to the pioneer of both modern dance and the role of men in dance, Ted Shawn, when finished it will be in a style that evokes the age.

View from my deck in Colorado. Old Stage Road and Buckingham Park below.

A bold backbend in homage and imitation of the constellation twinkling above. In the finished version, the figure's manhood will be more proportional and not as oversized as it appears here.

Beautiful Brenner Pass. Most awestruck travellers do not know its sad history as the path on which the Jews were taken out of Italy to concentration camps. The painting evokes the beauty with haunting echoes of purpose the place had in our recent past.

Many of my newest works not pictured here deal with the legacy of the Holocaust and how it still haunts. In America it seems irrelevant and distant to our lives, but infact it affects us in so many ways we often don't stop to imagine. It is a profound event full of countless important stories and is worth each person to take the time to revisit. Knowing it, sad though it is, enriches my life in many ways because of the many layers of understanding that come from its revealing lessons. Click Here.

2008 Article in Urban Molecule

2008 Article in Edge New York