I have, for many years, been recording and using my dreams in my art. The work represents an
integration of my art and my dreams: writing down the stories of them, then making drawings,
books, prints, paintings or sculptures about them.
The drawings in the books and subsequent pieces are not illustrations but a way of telling
another aspect of the dream. I have done dream drawings from which I've continued and done more
than 40 subsequent drawings. Each drawing is a continuation of the original image and also a
deepening of the impact and meaning. It has a relationship to the earlier image discovered in
the dream work and also it has its own story to tell.
These images also have a strong relationship to my earlier landscape drawings. I’ve used a variety
of personal symbols in both series and I continue to develop new symbols. These are mixed media
pieces, and I call them mixed media, using digitally produced images, similar to collage. I then
incorporate them into boxes and sometimes add other objects. I like to use all my toys and
tools from my toy box/tool box.