During the past two years I focused on three areas of approach to the painting process: temperament, medium and subject matter. I began by concentrating my efforts on a solid working attitude. I questioned everything about my daily efforts in the studio. The desire to understand my working attitude then lead me to concentrate on how I invented and utilized subject matter in my work. The consideration of subject matter founded a variety of new methods for working in the studio. These methods included incorporating new painting mediums, developing a drawing attitude and building three-dimensional objects from the visual vocabulary that evolved from the drawings.

Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland at College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts 1998