I am pop symbolist. My work in the formal sense is about Structural Geometry, intersecting lines, height, width and depth on a two dimensional page. This is the reality, the truth. What I reject is the idea that a work of art’s value derives solely from those elements of design, a formal academic notion that leaves me empty. I would rather believe that the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. This is the MAGIC of art! I want the power to create that kind of magic, to cast a spell. To literally fool the viewer into perceiving a painted detail as real. A visual fairytale they can’t escape, while celebrating the artist’s talent to deceive. My hope is the viewer has their own response, that they embrace the symbolism knowing that the design elements are a TROMPE L’OEIL, a trick of the eye conjured up by the artist to set them free to see what ever they need to.