As a graduate student I did a series of paintings about war in general and the Vietnam war in specific. In these paintings I may have succeeded in manipulating images of horror and despair with wit and emotion, those paintings did generate strong reactions, often in the form of tears or anger. However I found that I could not live with those paintings. I came to realize that what I wanted to do was add joy to the world, not more grief, there was and is too much grief already. I decided to not to make more antiwar art but pro-peace art.
Unfortunately too often the sad state of the world becomes too much for business as usual and I do a new antiwar artwork.

Once more we are in the abyss with the continual pounding of the war drums and twisting of arms and ripping of bodies. I am torn between directly addressing the current issues and continuing to propose a better life in my art.

I have made this section of my web site to address the issues of war and peace. I hope you find it a useful source of quotes for your letters or other forms of communication to friends, newspapers, politicians and whoever needs to be informed or encouraged.

I quote others only to better express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Most of the rest of my site harkens to the spirit expressed by Ray Bradbury when he wrote,
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from war, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.