The first three galleries of this site show three chapters of exploration within a common theme. My subjects have been the tired, the poor, the huddled masses within your local thrift store. If my peices over these last three years went on a field trip, I think the 'follow the leader rope' that would connect them all together would be vulnerability. I've chosen subjects that are kinda silly, kinda pathetic, usually forlorn with the hopes of turning them into superstar-Cinderella-prom queens....but not with make-up and jewlery and steleto heels (or glass slippers if you prefer), but with all their eccentricities, wear stains and out dated styles hanging out for the world to see. I'm taking the very details that would lead to their rejection and turning their volumes up to Spinal Tap's eleven. And hopefully surprizing people when they think they are beautiful...a different kind of beautiful. Not the cliche. Not the airbrushed Vogue magazine model beautiful. My aspiration is to open our eyes to unanticipated beauty-a redefinition with some room for complexity. These peices are a sacrament for me in that direction.