My art is influenced in part by a nearly thirty-year career taking care of people with chronic pain and serving in various roles as a medical-clinical ethicist. I began painting in the solitude of my basement as a form of stress relief and only recently began constructing welded sculpture from salvaged metal, retrieved from salvage yards. I aspire to evoke emotions, contemplation, and introspection in my work, understanding that each viewer will find their own idiosyncratic meaning. My art carries no profound particular message and does not require interpretation. For me, it is like music: perhaps to be enjoyed without the burden of analysis.