"In the late 1980's, I discovered da-da poetry and quickly became fascinated by how easily a collection of randomly generated words, with just a small amount of editing, could suggest a meaningful poem. In the early 1990's, I stumbled upon digital imagery while playing with a friend's computer and began wondering if I could use computer technology to extend my da-da inspired experiments into the visual arena.

When digital imaging technology became affordable to me in 1995, I bought a Power MAC computer, a scanner, and imaging software to pursue my idea. I typically begin an artwork by appropriating images from a variety of sources some from magazines and art books, some from small items I find lying around the house or on the street and place them on a "digital canvas."

I work towards aesthetically unifying the images by using traditional compositional techniques while also keeping an eye on the developing narrative structure which always seems to happen of its own accord. By utilizing the manipulative benefits of a digital environment, I have been able create seamless boundaries between appropriated images to a degree not possible with more traditional collage methods.

I generally do not title a piece until it is completed and consider the title an integral element of the artwork. I have become increasingly interested in exploring how imposing a formal structure onto a collection of initially unrelated images influences the viewer's interpretation of the artwork, i.e. how does the viewer distinguish what he creates vs what he discovers in his understanding of the piece?

My interest in these questions and the use of visual images to explore them has been significantly influenced by my readings in dada and surrealism, chaos theory, and psychoanalytic thought."