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If you are a child or an artist, you may be someone who conjures up faces wherever you look. Some of my first discoveries were faces in wallpaper & kitchen utensils, on telephones, at the front & back ends of cars, & on coin-operated seaside telescopes. At this early time on my creative path, faces grabbed my attention like nothing else: some were sweet or beautiful, some were sinister or serious, some hilarious.

Face-centric pieces seem to sneak into much of my work, in a variety of ways: some horizontal ones place themselves like savory dishes on a buffet—or a row of headstones in a cemetery. Some are mute, others capture a key word between their lips. Some are glued, stitched, or wired together & others, in a plate holder or on an easel, have magnet-backed features that encourage subtle or drastic re-arrangements. They are my metaphors for everything from personal/universal joys & struggles to the nation's conflicted politics; they are my "gateway" to speech—that is, they say what I've hoped to say, as an artist.

Faces pop up nearly everywhere on this site. I hope they speak to you &, if you choose to dig further, I hope you find many more.