The slide show above is about my new project. I've been working on these viewer-interactive sculptures for about three years now. The first year was spent learning to make the sculpture base out of birch. The mathematics involved are complicated, involving some 21 bevel angles to make the sculpture interactive. I was scheduled to show the first sculptures in an exhibit at the Chico Art Center in March of 2020 - but the show had to be cancelled due to Covid restrictions. In the meantime, I've worked on several new sculpture designs. As of April, 2021, I have completed eight: Night Galleries; California Dreaming; Animals in the Rescue Center; Day of the Dead; the Tardis in Yorshire; the Tardis in the land of Van Gogh; Italianate: Houses of the Haight; and Rainbow Gallery.

These sculptures are 3D, viewer-interactive, wall sculptures painted in reverse perspective. When viewing one as an online image it appears as a flat painting done in perspective. When viewing one in person, it initially gives the same impression. However, the second a viewer moves, right, left, up or down, it becomes delightfully disorienting due to the depth of the sculpture and motion that interacts with the viewer much as a dancing partner.

This work is rooted in earlier conceptual works such as Donatello’s  “Feast of Herod”; Hans Holbein’s “The Ambassadors of 1533”; and the more recent work of Patrick Hughes’ “Reverspective”.

But my work is not “derivative”. It is unique. Patrick Hughes had this to say about my current work “I am so proud to be a part of your unique art, with its so strong sense of colour, and shape, and warmth and humanity."

I love seeing people interact with my work. They move, they dance, they return to view again and again. This blend of birch, oil paint and mathematics is magical. It gives me joy and it gives the viewers joy. I hope you get to see one in person soon! (In the meantime, you can learn about individual sculptures by using the links below.)