What slowly became apparent was that its arbitrary beginnings, emphasizing friendship as an ordinary process, hid an intuition of greater purpose. What became clear was that both art and friendship, when enjoyed thoroughly, can proclaim the fullest nature of human life, that our truest values are felt at the most personal and the most social levels by our friendships and our art. Friendship bespeaks individuality at its finest moment of freedom and responsibility. Friendship is the smallest but most secure moment of sociality, of the desire of the individual body for more than mere fulfillment of needs. Friendship is always authentic and locatable, daily and specific, ordinary and active, mundane and exotic.
Friends occupy each other in an unbound contract, renegotiated at every point of contact.
It is the essence of empathy and, thus, of a positive and active world. Art is a friendship with oneself, with one's own fears and desires and hauntings and commitments and longings. How these skills and dangers inform one another, how they press on one another, how they impinge and support one another is the thread that joins the works in this exhibition together. It is that single thread, offered as a gift. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, and received a B.F.A. in 1972.