While influenced by such photographers as William Christenberry and Walker Evans, I was more dramatically impacted by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns,  and Jean Michael Basquiat, as well as the art of roadside signs, billboards, vintage matchbooks, and postcards and graffiti. With my photographic work, I moved closer and closer to my subject—taking close-ups of signs and presenting them in such a way that they became not just a sign but my interpretation of the artistry involved in the everyday.  Still restless, I wanted to evolve beyond this.

I began experimenting with creating my own images, such as signs, posters and even graffiti, from the scores of photos I had already taken.  While I discover the final image through working on it, I also control the process tightly, trying numerous combinations, sometimes rejecting the entire image, or using it as a part of another collage. I may use as few as three or as many as ten photographs to compose one image, or I may use small pieces of one photograph multiple times. It is through this process that I have been able to marry my love of photography with my appreciation for the various arts of painting, silk screen, mixed media, and graphic design—by transforming one or more photographic images into something complex, richly textured, and painterly.