12 things my paintings are about


Standing in the woods as a possibility

A long lineage of a particular type of landscape painting

50 acres of property, within 50 miles of land in Michigan

A personal/political gestalt

The handmade object

Nature as a poem

Making Special Ellen Dissanayake 

Not about technology

A current you can tap into

Transcending industrialization, urbanization, and entrepreneurialization,

Using symbols to reconnect to nature.

Felt intuitions Charles Taylor



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Photo- The field outside my studio window.