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The Big Picture is an expression of my esthetic migration to a synthesis. My attitude toward creativity described as Zen Process takes the art to a new resolution. This particular resolution freezes time as well as parts of separate visions. The start of my path in art was the physical organization of light in the discipline of painting. The Big Picture Installation is 30 panels which are 20"x 30" each hung in a configuration of 6 columns and 5 rows. The approximate size of the complete installation is between 13' and 14' tall and 11' wide. The size and combination of images offers a new canvas able to encompass a greater scope. Some of the source materials are paintings originally created from 1965 through 2007. Between dissection and re-painting, the original context is drastically altered. The images and original intentions continue to succeed in this migration. The Big Picture is in fact a much closer depiction of how I experience the life in art construct. This view is now absorbed into my art and presented as an individual work. This work also depicts periods within my larger body of art. During these periods, fidelity to local discovery permeated my consciousness. My overview of a greater vision was realized in the compression of time. Part of my concept of art is art as intentional artifact of its time.

The Big Picture was influenced by several art viewing experiences. The world wide web provided frames of images which would shift and offer new related or fragmented images. Sometimes the relationships were not immediately clear. Another influence was a show at The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College . The show required that each artist fit whatever material they desired into a hanging file folder. These folders contained paintings, prints, P.R. material, CD and DVD works, and one artist simply cut up a very large painting into pieces which would fit into the folder. I was intrigued by this show and went through every folder. I was impressed by the cut up painting because it took guts to do the cutting and kept the purity of the art. It was a good painting. Both the web and the show at Bard underlined multiple points of view and glimpses through time. My work has gone through various periods that express my thirst for discovery. At this time, my need for a gathering up from these periods into a larger vision reaching toward unity brings me to the present series of works forming The Big Picture.