In the late 1960's I paid my way thru Pennsylvania law school by taking photographs of college graduates receiving their diplomas at Brown, Laffayette, and other colleges. I participated in and photographed anti war demonstrations in Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and the Woodstock music festival.  In early 1970 I moved to New York City, rented a loft  on Avenue A and 7th Street and began work at a Park Avenue law firm.  

       With my first pay check  I bought color dark room equipment and began experimenting with color photography.  Other artists in the building saw my work and suggested I was trying to paint with my camera.  So I took a beginning drawing class at the Art Students League on 57th Street and experienced an epiphany at my first life drawing session.   I studied drawing, painting and sculpture  at the Art Students League, the New School and the Brooklyn Museum School.  I painted in water color, guache, pastel, and acrylic, sculpted in clay and experimented with abstract and conceptual art but was unsatisfied with those directions.

        I wanted to portray what I saw in a new and better way and began reading articles on human perception at Flower 5th Avenue Hospital Library.   I drew and painted on clear plastic, viewing my subject through the plastic.  I compared my right and left eye vision using an eye patch to treat the same subject as seen by each eye separately.  I tried combining the separate visions.     I was attracted to Egyptian reliefs at the Met and  did a series of window paintings which presaged my break through into relief in mid 1975.  Here is a survey of my New York art work prior to relief.