Mother Nature offers me an unlimited source of inspiration as abstract images and shapes create balanced and coherent compositions.  Although these compositions are abstracted enough to permit the viewer to imagine their own meaning, I concentrate on ideas of communication, adaptation, growth, and reproduction.  Black outlines allow my design elements become more connected.  In dealing with color, my choices are made symbolically to set moods or reference things or ideas not necessarily represented in the imagery.  And it's all a visual diary on a philosophical level.