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I have a reverence for the unusual and an enthusiasm for the irrelevant.

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My playground is the borderlands and the fringes between reason and whimsy.

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My curiosity takes me across cultures and disciplines to other times end places, and I explore these by creating Art and Craft.

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My tools are my imagination, knowledge, and experience along with line and color, brush and canvas, wood, bone and brass.

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On canvas I paint bold and vivid saturated color statements that capture moments in time that will never come again.

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Sculpting and carving bone has allowed me to turn artifact into art and has given me some insight into the human compulsion for decoration.

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As an animation artist and designer I create environments where the imaginings of others may live. I design and build the stage sets for ideas.

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My writing, whether prose or poetry, enables me to create entire worlds inhabited by the unexpected.

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My assemblages are fashioned from salvage, found materials, and odds and ends which are repurposed with a new reason for being as I put them together with craftsmanship and humor.

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The Cabinets of Mystery are fashioned as "Schoolboy's Museums" which I furnish with with a juxtaposition of the artifacts of man and nature that urge discovery and wonder. Their purpose is for fun, befuddlement and education.

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I have devised Thimblerig Research to be a place of invention, creation, wonderment and humor. It is the factory floor of my imagination.

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