The idea of my web site is to create a true retrospective; by which I mean to show almost everything I have done. A web site, with all of its virtual space, is a good place to make myself vulnerable in this way. I choose to expose my mental leaps and falls, showing connections between paintings and ideas that would not otherwise be visible.

I was up to my eyes in Mental debt. By this I mean that in becoming a writer I hoped to bring out somehow my singular reactions to existence. Why else write?

Like the notion of medium or genre within more traditional contexts for art, an automatism would involve the relationship between a technical (or material) support and the conventions with which a particular genre operates or articulates or works on that support. What "automatism" thrusts into the foreground of this traditional definition of "medium, " however, is the concept of improvisation, of the need to take chances in the face of a medium now cut free from the guarantees of artistic tradition. It is this sense of the improvisatory that welcomes the word's associations with "psychic automatism", but the automatic reflex here is not so much an unconscious one as it is something like the expressive freedom that improvisation always contained, as the relation between the technical ground of a genre and it's given conventions opened up a release - the way a fugue makes it possible, for example, to improvise complex marriages between it's Voices.