My paintings in this series are a personal attempt to raise our collective consciousness about the man made, destructive impact to nature, called global warming.  Because the truth of this threat lies in many years of earth sciences data and analysis, my paintings’ pictorial images are derived from space-based satellite observations of the earth and the processed space-time imagery, maps of chemical and thermal changes in the land, and in the oceans and atmosphere.  Thus, the evidence of subtle changes lies in the seasonal and yearly trends of the whole earth.  These paintings are mixed media abstractions concerned with global warming transformations of this earth system.   Evidence of change in the artwork is made using mapping, diagrams, sequences of changing shapes and colors, and a layering of the paint.  The painting surface itself reveals a history of change. 

My art in “The Strand at Huntington” series expresses change and transformation of a building site and its consequent transformation of our environment and local culture.  A large site in the heart of my town presents a show of architectural stages that began with razing the previous structures and removing the past before building the new.   These in-process scenes are fragments of the whole and something of what will be.  They reveal its geometry and inner structures, its layers and modern building technologies that I translate into layers of mixed media on paper.   My mixtures of watercolor, inks, goauche and acrylics suggest the construction materials of steel, concrete, wood and paint.  In addition, I use found papers, shipping tags, packaging materials and ubiquitous surfer stickers with graphics and text to represent structural elements and to combine man and machine processes.  Found site materials are referents to the building process as well as the mixing of the old with the changing and with the new. 

            My construction process in these paintings conceptually reflects events of that site.  I make semi-abstract compositions rather than the completed whole, and investigate the chemistry, weights, shifts, dynamic forces and rhythms of the unfinished state.  I portray what is being made and how and why things change.  My compositions of shape, space, color, layer and line become my personal expression of transformation and change.