Journal
inspiration, Perspective, and process 

What I call “pure painting” is a concept that has prevailed in American aesthetics since at least the 1940s. Most prominent among its...

Father’s Day is this weekend in the United States. Whether you refer to your patriarch as father, dad or pop, please take a moment to...

The link between poetry and painting is well established, wrapped in the term “ekphrasis,” what I call the poem’s attempt to recreate...

In Circle Suite No. Four, the lowly paper grocery bag has been degraded and rendered useless for carrying groceries. Reassembled, the paper

Were there always ghosts and visions over this hill?... In "The Palace" windows I saw flickers of movement: one split second an acrobat...

Recent paintings were accepted for the juried 55th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition which opens in Hays, Kansas on April 27.

Might the poet, songwriter or artist prod confession and nurture beauty when and where beauty can be found?