I created this site during the winter of 1996 to showcase the paintings and sculpture I had been doing during the previous half-decade and it grew during a special time to encompass the work I did in the half dozen years that followed. I taught myself to hand code the (then) esoteric HTML on an Apple II SI (with memory still measured in kilobytes.) This was long before the advent of JAVA, PHP, ASP, SEQUeL, AJAX, and the many other variations of the new, more active web technologies that are responsible for the far more enriching experience that is the norm today.

Back then the internet was a much different place. Google was a little known newcomer on the search scene, and spam still came in little cans. Websites were generally lengthy one page affairs with nothing but rudimentary type styling, pale blue backgrounds, and the odd interspersed hyperlink. Being an artist, I knew I would have to demand more from this emerging technology and thus, I set out to push the envelope as it stood back then. My success in this endeavor was rewarded with ample accolades.

In its heyday, this site proudly displayed nearly four dozen design awards. For relative newcomers to the web, these were the valuable and valid badges of honor passed out by the larger corporate funded websites who sought to reward creativity and innovation in a medium that was, when this site was first conceived and created, still in its blissful innocent infancy. In hindsight, this was probably less altruistic than it seemed at the time. Many of the corporate mega-sites were much less imaginatively designed than the sites they gave awards to. Additionally they were certainly advantageously placed to reap future benefit from the accelerated sophistication of an internet driven forward by the force of their encouragement. However, even this inescapable element of corporate cynicism was tempered with the wide-eyed optimism common to us all. No one could have predicted the way internet commerce exploded. There was nothing that even hinted of the possibility of such a thing. Not even the best and brightest MBA had a clear idea of how to profit from this newly christened information superhighway. The leap from information dissemination- which, at the time, had no other conceivable purpose than to be, at best, a novelty; to any kind of stand-alone revenue stream -much less the revolution which spawned the dot com millionaire boom- was as unlikely to anyone back then as the space shuttle would have been to Henry Ford.

For many years, these awards stood silent sentinel alerting the first time visitor that they were in for something special in the pages that followed. The awards were given in the form of distinctly recognizable Gifs that were sequestered on the awarding company's servers to prevent pretenders from displaying them. Visitors had likely encountered a number of them at other exemplary sites, which added to the cache of the awards they might not have encountered before.

The years have eroded what was once an impressive array down to its present 3 or 4. The others slowly disappeared as the years passed and sponsoring websites changed hands or ceased to operate, priorities changed, and ultimately the birth of Web 2.0 ushered the internet bravely into the 21st century. Nine or Ten years ago this page proudly displayed its array like the uniform of an accomplished and much decorated military officer. I'm thankful that a few examples of this short-lived practice still remain to provide fodder for the fertile imagination.

In the years this site has been online, it has had many thousands of visitors. Web tecnology has moved far beyond what you will see here. I have chosen to leave it as it was in its heyday, not because the new technology is too difficult to master, but rather as a tribute to a wide-eyed innocence that made it possible to spur a rennaisance in this type of art. Between the years 1994 and 2004, the centuries old tradition of expressing deeply held spiritual beliefs in a tangible two or three dimensional format experienced an all to brief resurgance. This website is a snapshot of that phenomenon. I was fortunate to have been blessed by God with the abilities and talents that, coupled with serendipitous placement in time, allowed me to play a part. My only regret is that its time was far too brief. The art of any civilization will always reflect its most profoundly held core beliefs. It is sad to see a nation that professes to be Christian, rushing to embrace an expression that is so gnostic. Abstraction, the rage of taste, is nothing more than the visual refusal to succomb to the fact that we are not, and never will be, the creators of anything new and worthwhile. It is simply a bland restatement of the original rallying cry "I will not serve"! Perverting order, form, line, and color so as to pretend to a new creation, is the saddest deception we foist upon ourselves. Ugliness is an unavoidable consequence of beauty just as darkness is an unavoidable consequence of light and cold is and unavoidable consequence of heat. Take it away and you arrive at the other state. Far from being evidence of the ability to create, it is just the sad impotent tantrum of a race of beings that refuses to acknowlege the possibility that they are not self-made. When you break it down, modernism is nothing more than the glorying in the fact that today is not yesterday.