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These paintings are a pursuit of narrative images.   About 1982 or 1984 I developed an interest in the human
figure, its actions and its gestures which I felt expressed human emotions without such details as fingers
and toes, hair, and facial expressions.   And the narrative line of Italian Gothic painting re-awakened me to
the excitement of visual stories - from the Bible, from Greek myths, from medieval epics, from my
imagination.
The scenes are not realistic, which helps sustain the mythic mood, there is no shading, the surfaces are
flat.   Instead of Renaisance perspective, isometric perspective is used to view the scene from above
instead of at eye level, and the laws of gravity are often ignored.