When most people think of Texas photographs, they think of beautiful bluebonnets. I love shooting photographs of nature and they are an important part of my subject matter. Yet the world we live in is primarily one of parking lots, malls, stores, highways, and cars. I wanted to show the beauty and humor of that world. Sometimes I get the feeling we go from buildings to cars to video screens and deny to ourselves that we live in a manmade environment. I just wanted to make that "invisible" world "visible".

Six months ago I change my media and started making assemblages and less photographs. More assemblages will be displayed and less photographs.

I am not an outsider artist or a folk artist. I am a mainstream artist who has a mental illness. If I had not suffered chronic, disabling mental illness at the age of 21, I would have gone on to receive a MA, and then gone on to a Professor career track in a college or university.

Despite mental illness, I have had an art career producing drawing, painting, collage, photography and assemblage. All this output was influenced and limited by mental illness, often succeeding so that no signs of mental illness were evident in my art.

My first success was showing "Mental Patient Portraits" made from 1978-1982 during 1990.

Then my career was a local one, showing at the galleries of university, colleges, and local art center from 1985 to the present. This output was paintings, collages, and now photography from the same time period. This is my most "mature" work and shows the least influence of mental illness. Also during this time I was in almost all NAEMI art exhibits winning first place in 1991, 1992, and 2006.  I had a one-man show at the Miami Center of Photographic Arts in 2006.