The world is in ruins anyhow, so I take the pieces and make a new reality. (Kurt Schwitters) 

Schwitters’, the great Dadaist collagist, “pieces” were the various paper items he found on the streets in Hanover

in Weimar Germany and later in London in the 40s where he anticipated on an intimate scale many of the art

movements of the following 3 decades. I have a few collage series and collage books made with material from

the streets but most often they draw on a huge range of other types of materials: art reproductions, fragments

of my early paintings, pages from manga and comic books, etc. Each collage employs several types of

contrasting materials, which help determine both its form and content. In addition, the various papers are often

first worked with graphite, pastel, acrylic, or wax mixed with powdered pigment. I also have a large cache of my

enlarged photographic images on acetate that I can layer over certain collages. My goal is to give the collages

the visual richness of painting despite the humble materials used in their construction.