"I contemplate the reasons I feel compelled to paint and the importance of what I paint. I need to imagine the world without modern artifices, a world more simple, a time before. Technology has invaded the innermost crevices of our being. Even when painting far from civilization, I am reminded of modern life by the invasive and loud roar of a jet overhead or the prying glint of an automobile. Perhaps that is why I am so intrigued by early structures built with indigenous materials, whether houses or stone walls, constructed by hand with hard but highly skilled labor. They still stand as sentinels of a different time."