Blind Contour

Watercolor sketches

Barcelona journals

A series of three 4"x3" hand-sewn books that I made while living in Barcelona. I designed the cover and end pages from empty bags of coffee and empty sugar bags.

The Chinaberry Tree

A 2003 Christmas present for my father's octogenarian mother, our family created a small book of stories based on my father's childhood. Truly a family collaboration: my mother was the publisher, my father wrote the story which my brother then illustrated. I designed a book cover and end pages using photos from my father's childhood, and then typeset and hand-bound together the stories into a limited edition of 15 books (4.5"x6", 42 pages).

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Back Cover:

Finger Puppets

Board Books

American Primitive

Watercolor drawing I made for Jeremiah and Shasta Lockwood, later used on Jeremiah's American Primitive CD

Brooklyn

Man Crossing Greenpoint Avenue

Chess Set

2003

Chess set I made from screws, nuts, bolts, marbles, and other misc. hardware. Board is painted plywood. I gave this as a wedding present for a wonderful couple.

47th Street, Diamond District

These watercolor sketches of Orthodox Jewish men come from my 8 years living in a small loft surrounded by skyscrapers in NYC's Diamond District.

Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat

Stills from The Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat, a 16 minute, 35mm, photocollage animation I made in 2004. The film is in the media collection of the New York Public Library and the Ontario School of Art & Design. Distributed in the US by Filmmakers' Cooperative and in Canada by the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre. Created with funding from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

I shot the film on a 35mm Oxberry Animation stand, an amazing machine which had a very simple computer on which I could program pans and zooms, instead of cranking them frame by frame by hand. The film was created from thousands of pieces of photographs which I first cutout and then recombined under the camera. Certain scenes could take days to animate. The 2nd photo above, with the birds circling around the tree, was from a 30 second scene which took me about 16 hours to animate.

The entire 16 minute film took about 5 years to make.

My Mother's Garden III

My Mother's Garden II

My Mother's Garden