During sports figures are at their most intense and fascinating in terms of angles and shapes. Recently I have painted images from my history, young adult NYC and childhood in Jim Crow VA where the county created a dump surrounding the Black kids' school. My work takes the senses beyond the figure's immediate action to the place the eye sees but the mind can't retain. While anchored in realism, my passion is design and I seek an overall rhythm and line as I add form, energy and color.