The majority of my work is a response to specific events, dreams, or emotional states using a deliberately chosen "alphabet" of shapes, colors, and designs.  Geometric forms--especially circles, rectangles, and triangles--spermatozoic shapes, handwriting strokes, etching marks made with knives and pencils, smudges created with erasers, along with a bold color palette form my basic language.  I use crayons, pencils, and pens because of their simple immediacy and because they form an autobiographical link straight back to my childhood.  Thus my art and the tools used to make that art are my fingerprint, my retina scan, my DNA signature.