I was born in San Aslemo, California on August 16, 1954, the middle son of a large Catholic Irish and Italian family. My father was a turbine engineer working for the railroads and power companies and growing up was both in California and Pennsylvania where I went to high school. Like all good kids of the 60’s, I learned to love rock and roll. I worked construction in Colorado, bought a house, sold it, enlisted in The Marine Corps. I spent a lot a time on ships. The Corps had me in Okinawa and Dubai and California and recruiting in Ohio but the highlight of my Marine Corps career was fighting the forest fires in Montana. My first job after I retired from 20 years in the Marines was managing an RV park in Harlingen Texas. But neither me nor my best buddy, a dog named Brawn, liked south Texas. I returned to the beaches and deserts of Southern California where I started to seriously explore ART DAMAGE. In 1969, "The Philadelphia Enquirer" featured popular celebrities in the funny pages. I cut them out and taped them to the ceiling of my bedroom. This was the beginning of my creativity. In 1989, on the way home from "The Subway," a new wave club in Cincinnati, I heard a radio program called "Art Damage" that played scratched records, broken CD’s and other damaged music. This inspired me. The partial picture and the broken up image can be more then the whole seeing more then we saw before. ART DAMAGE is images that are re-worked, re-done, done-over, layered, taped and bound. Sort of "Cubism" with scissors. One thing led to another and Brawn and I decided retire to the high desert where Brawn sits by the pool and I cut pictures out of magazines. "Art Damage" can be seen at the Wright Image in Palm Springs. 760.622.6220