From the subway series, garnered from hours of daily commuting and listening, watching and observing.

From my subway drawing series.

From my subway drawing series.

From my subway drawing series (sometimes a rider comes on to your car and sit down and you fall in love.)

From my subway drawing series.

From my subway drawing series.

From my subway drawing series.

I draw and paint in sketchbooks while listening and participating in conversations.

This image graces the pages of my essay in the book edited by Sharon Louden, "The Artist as Cultural Producer, Living and Sustaining a Creative Life.

Same book, another page. Made in the presence of other people, usually in a group while folks are talking I am drawing.

Another drawn conversation, words and sentences translate to color and line on a page, like writing just more fluid and colorful.

Sketchbook series.

Small painted sketch.

I often use vintage, found and old papers for I am interested in the independent life of paper, and how it complicates and adds richness to the reading of an artwork. I search out paper for its tactility, imperfection, and the historicity of surface.

This is another sketch on a found, vintage sketchbook

From the vintage sketchbook series.

Always drawing on the subway.

Overheard in conversation, planning as "french braiding."

Roccos is a famous cafe and bakery on Bleecker Street in NYC; I started my morning there for many years drawing, listening and drinking coffee.

One of my favorite sketches. All of these 2013 sketches on vintage paper went missing when the FedEx truck they were traveling in was hijacked en route to a Parisian gallery.

I am a dot fan. I draw and print them a lot. (Dot, dot, dot.) i