I have been painting and making collages and scratched photos for about fifty years. I use material I come across in everyday life––mostly newspapers and magazines, I also collect postcards, discarded family snapshots and my own photographs of roads, movies I'm watching, landscapes. So many images sitting around––I thought I might do something with them, scratch them up, glue on them. Somehow there is worship involved.

I like to put together images that wouldn't normally find each other.
So many images get thrown away every day; it bothers me when they contain things––news, effort, bravery––which have touched me. I think of the collages as tributes to people and places I love, to beauty, or as expressions of outrage at the horrible things which are happening or have happened in the world.

My watercolors are done mostly when I travel and I simply paint what is in front of me. It is a way of meditating.