I have played with geometric forms all my life. As a child I built towers with wooden blocks, houses with pre-Legos American Bricks and skyscrapers with an Art Deco building set, and I continued to build with them through my teens. In graduate school I began to create ambiguous pictorial spaces with eccentric geometric volumes, and fifty years later I am still hard it.

My recent works begin with a drawing on paper of spiraling ovals. I scan the drawing into Photoshop, make three duplicate layers, flip each duplicate into a different orientation, make the ovals on each layer a different color, and merge them back onto the first layer. The result is a symmetrical, four-colored tangle. I then print the image onto Epson canvas or watercolor paper. Each layer is assigned a color, and the illusions of transparency in the oil paintings are created by physically mixing combinations of the four opaque pigments; in the watercolors by layering washes of the four transparent pigments. My recent watercolors are further complicated by underlying patterns of triangles, diamonds or chevrons which bring two more colors into play. These are my most dense and intense works, and hardest to complete- after painting the first two layers I strain to see the forms in layers three and four.