...the past into the future, right now:
that is what continues.

• 
  To view samples of my work...

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  Select a title from the listing below and an image is presented.
  More samples are available via the Internet, or CDROM: please 
  send me email to request access to a larger selection of my work,
  or works you may seek specifically.
  

  
  

  KEY: title, medium (dimension[CM])

1. celebrated common, watercolor on paper (32.5 x 23)
2. taught unaware, watercolor on paper (15.5 x 14.5)
3. lies not placed, watercolor on paper (22.5 x 24.5)
4. whoa go, watercolor on paper (19.5 x 28)
5. facia, watercolor on paper (29 x 21.5)
6. walls wander over, watercolor on paper (21.5 x 27.5)
7. probable arrival, watercolor on paper (27.5 x 38.5)
8. pressed up, watercolor on paper (21 x 38)
9. hip hither height, watercolor on paper (28.5 x 38.5)
10. winnow, watercolor on paper (29.5 x 25.5)
11. falls faintly backwards, watercolor on paper (29 x 22.5)
12. forgets badly, watercolor on paper (26 x 15.5)

• To learn a bit of the why & what I do...

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• "Why do you make so many pictures?",  Olivia asks.
  
  "Learning to see, all over again.", I reply.
  
  "But," she insists, "your eyes are open... why the picture?"
  
  I listen closely, her intonation; then, "The eyes are tools,
  just like this brush, that paint and your question.  A 
  picture is not an answer, nor completely resolving of any thing 
  or idea.  A picture is not a question either, although it may 
  'ask' of the view--"
  
  "So, what is it, and why make them?",  tracking, but she skips
  ahead of me.
  
  "Each one is a favor, both offered and requested.  Each of these
  favors is an object of participation, however brief, however
  enduring, where--yes, it is a place--a person might join a
  conversation like this one.  The subjects are many, and as with
  all dialogues, of things we share and are engaged."
  
  "What?!", Olivia pursues, "You mean a picture, your pictures, are
  like some sort of coffee shop?  And I can just visit them and, 
  what, have a chat?"
  
  "Something like that... dialogues between us, through them. 
  We've a lot to discuss, so I keep making pictures.  Those derived 
  from photography are not like those I've drawn, painted or printed
  because the tools and media are not alike;  however, my practice 
  using all of these means is similar because, of the tools I use,  
  my eyes are reading what my hands render,  and with all due 
  respect for the medium." 
  
                     
  

• ...take two...

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• I can define a location, or a pencil.  I cannot define what I see.
  I could not do this,  ever.  I can only define what I want 
  you to see, with an image.  What that is has variation. Yet, I do 
  not have a choice. Not one, but so many, in fact, I am buoyed 
  among them. As I make a picture,  whatever, even writing this... 
  the excluded and omitted, by implication, are a big deal, 
  supporting the subject,  like "coffee".
  
  So,  my work is about choice and that I do not have one. Thus,
  reminded of the Laws of Thermodynamics... the First and Second,
  specifically; that is,  I cannot truly create, nor destroy any 
  thing, but merely alter forms to define (over and over again) that 
  purity is complex, but not confused. 
  
  Each picture is a favor to ask, and an offering of what we may 
  commonly agree as "just so".  My works define a position, of 
  decisions made and a course of actions taken.  But most of all, 
  my work is a fiction, depicting no real place, persons, nor object, 
  as music is a kind of rendering, "just so".
  
  Many years ago I practiced more art work. A few pieces were 
  exhibited. Then I changed media,  and practice, to information 
  technologies and computers. While I continued to paint and 
  photograph, I worked more with bits and code,  later teaching 
  others about bits and code. Fascinating work,  reaching a not 
  dissimilar "just so", especially working with students and the 
  less-well-defined-than-conventionally-perceived relationship 
  of Data Set and Computer Program.
  
  Now not as much returning, but from here reflecting and 
  representing that which continues,  variously known "just so". 
  I still program computers,  but more as a means for 
  "picture making".
  
  Please email me for needed detail,
  or where I may blur,  may burnish.
  
  kind regards,
  
  David
  





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