Experimental Series #3 Design, Collage 19.75”X14”

When I first retired I would take my bar codes, Acrylic medium, paper cutters and brushes and go to various near-by campsites during the week when few other campers were there, mountains, deserts and beaches. I studied Thomas Merton and evaluated the benefits of solitude. I just started playing with these images until the project began to take shape. I had planned to have my first one-man show in two years from retirement. After all, my students had been promised a bar code collage once I retired.
Finding a ground, choosing the process for enlarging my fingerprint and determining the display format, all became both the focus of intent and the actuation processes. It all began to develop on its own. I just used my experience to follow this path to my art. I kept telling myself, "as long as I'm doing anything, I'm doing something." "I may not know exactly how things will come about but if I keep doing stuff, eventually something will." It's how things get done. And it's still what I do.