“Modern Primitive”, 2004, oil/paper, 15”-15.5”. For jazz musician and composer Herbie Nichols(1919-1963). 

“Side By Side”, 1999(revised 2023), oil/primed paper,

14”-17”. From the “Still(Lives)” series. There is a connection in this series with the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi but I was more interested in the relationships, the distances between shapes. Between a group of people. What seems like an emptiness in between becomes a full presence. At least in art anyway.