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crylic on canvas.

The first in my "Quality of Life" series. I got really into the random walls throughout the city where someone painted over graffitti, creating an abstract form by virtue of the mismatched paint colors.

I started buying rejct paint from home depot and stretching 5 by 6 foot paintings, rolling a color and then having my friends tag the canvas.

We would repeat the process several time to build up some layers on the simulated wall. Afterwords, I ogt the idea to take some of my sketchbook drawings and scale them up over the abstract form.

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Oil on plywood.

I met this woman walking passed the Whitehouse everyday on my way to school. She had a pemanent protest on Pennsylvania Avenue reading "Ban All Nuclear Weapons or Have a Nice Doomsday."

On December 8, 1982, protester Norman Mayer was shot and killed by the Park Police after threatening to blow up the Washington Monument. Her protest picked up where Mr. Mayer left off.

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Acrylic on canvas.

John is one of my closest friends. This painting was done when he was on a break from some of his vast American travels and came to visit me in my hovel on 25th and K, in Foggy Bottom.

As I recall, we shared a bottle of Jameson's Irish Wiskey and I made this painting. The good ole days.

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Elephants: Gorilla Painting Project

I painted the elephants while a student at The Corcoran School of Art. The painting was does on 4x4 foot masonite boards and assembled to a height of 12x12 feet.

I had been spending a lot of time sketching animals at the National Zoo that year and the deplorable state of the place was perfectly analogous to the state of the city under mayor Marion Barry.