My interest in describing feelings and events began at an early age along with an impulse to graphically capture things on canvas or paper that moved me. Today,  I see myself as a poet, painter and novelist, and am especially driven by an intense, ongoing desire to better understand the influence history and culture has on human behavior. I meet every new day with a near insatiable desire to assemble the influencial fragments of my life's experience into wholistic artistic images that I can share with others.