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My series "I See the Future Through an Open Door" is an interpretation of a vision I had years ago.  I pictured an open door with bright lights on the other side.  I felt if I walked through that door that my whole world would change, but I could never pass back through it again.  It was intriguing.

Several months later I was given the opportunity to move from Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest.  I was a major leap of faith for me,, but I decided to go for it.  It was the right thing to do.  My whole life changed for the better, and I am a painter today because of that door/decision.

This series combines realism and abstraction.  The images, aside from the figures, symbolize the doors/decisions we have before us in life; some are easy to see, while others are more obscured or hidden.  For some the opportunities have been ignored or passed by.  At other times, like me, the individual leaps or races for the opportunity.