(This is the last installment on this topic, continued from Words and Pictures I: Childhood and Words and Pictures II: Growing Up.) What I’ve learned from this double vision of the world is that the basic ingredient for visual art and fiction is OBSERVATION. If you’ve ever drawn a picture of something that didn’t turn […]

Check out Words and Pictures Part I, about my early interest in the verbal and the pictorial. My family loved to read. As we reached high school, paperback books often went the rounds, with each reader initialing the inside cover. When the book had been read by everyone, it landed in a box by the […]

Just so you know, any photo or visual art you see here is mine, unless otherwise indicated. Pictures are as essential to my creative work as words are. In fact, the two hold hands every step of the way. Let me explain: I’ve always struggled between the language of words and the language of pictures. […]