After I returned from Vietnam I felt the world was only black and white. It seemed to me I could not feel or see the colors of a sunset while sitting on a beach in California. The lack of color was startling enough to motivate me to playing with colors.

I visited museums and purchased paper, paints, and pencils–to put some color on paper and in my mind’s eye. I wandered around the United States for several years. A mind-numbing day job in Austin, Texas motivated me to continue putting paint on canvas using mostly primary colors, as seen in my early works.

I used brushes very little, mostly palette knives, sponges, fingers, shaking, and blotting the wet paint to achieve the effects I wanted to feel, smell and see.

I experimented with a wide range of medias along the way to broaden my experiences in feeling different materials and how they responded to and fed my mind’s eye. I worked as a welder for a couple of years, found a potter who needed an apprentice, enjoyed working with stained glass, and found stuff was made into assemblies.

My art is abstract, impressionistic, and somewhat realistic. My art has evolved from out-of-focus with anger to broad horizons with endless skies as I get closer to the end of my career and life.

My lasting contribution to humankind is raising an urgent alarm about the global warming crisis. Read the “JUMP” painting description, priced at $5 billion for the initial funding of the removal of the heat islands warming El Nino. It is up to the human collective to solve the global warming crisis. The human collective’s demands for products, foods, and fuels are driving our industries to pillage and harvest the planet’s resources to the current brink of self destruction.

Everyone contributed to the global warming crisis and everyone is needed to solve the global warming crisis. For additional details on how you can change your future, the future of the planet and human-kind, visit: www.globalcoolingproject.com.

“Art is the application of one’s life experiences through images, objects, and sometimes words, while the message is what the viewer experiences.”