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Summit is a collection of photos taken while flying around China and from Singapore to Malaysia and Indonesia. The group looks at the peaceful beauty found only at the heights of mountains.

The series Transitions is a group of approximately 850 works on paper and canvas completed in Shanghai at the end of 2009. The series title operates on many levels for example moving from New York to Shanghai would be one transition, the transition between western painting styles while using traditional Chinese materials etc... The series consists of 20 groups ranging from simple large shapes to complex geometries and minimal fields of color. The groups can be seen as chapters in a novel that transition a story of discovery and bridge western views of Chinese culture and traditional art styles.

The use of the the trapezoid in this group of paintings uses this fundamental form found in geometry to explore rhythm, color and patterns. Over the years I have developed an interest in the relationship between geometries found in nature and the simplicity of these building blocks which define our universe. I have also written about the processing of our experiences as the recognition and storage of symbols in the brain.

Many of the works I created in China during 2009 - 2010 are influenced by my travels to different parts of the country. While in Hangzhou I visited Lingyin Temple also called Yunlin Temple its a famous Buddhist temple located northwest of West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province it sits between the Feilai Peak and Beigao Peak surrounded by tall trees and high mountains. The Temple was built circa 326, and has a history of over 1600 years.

Around 2009, I was living in Shanghai. During this period there was a lot of infrastructure development in and around the city. Many of which were con- structions of high speed rail lines, subway lines, highway restructuring etc... I began looking at some of the scaffolding surrounding the sites and noticed how intricate and detailed they were. So many textures and colors receding as far back over the horizon as the eye could see. So I began to take photographs every week of different changes that were occurring.