Enter the unknown with intent to discover. Return with the will to create.

Portrait of Tony Valente, a trompet player and composer performing at Harvard Square in Cambridge MA.

 Each piece is an adventure, scary and exciting in their own particular ways. Each work seems to carry its own dictates, the paper seems different everytime and so does the charcoal and of course the model and the light. Everytime I seem to start from zero not knowing where the path will take me, and hopefully this will remain so, for I enjoy the ryde through an open field.

Charcoal portraits of actors in Cocoon Theatre's production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." Made possible by special arrangements with Dramatist's Play, Inc.

 Douglas Woolley as Estragon

Gordon W. Brown as Vladimir

Mark Chandler Bailey as Pozzo

Norm Magnusson as Pozzo

Jim Granger as Lucky

Andres San Millan as Lucky

 Sebastian Gaddis as a boy

 Tivoli Day 

Photo by Jeffrey Cella

Tivoli 2011

Portrait of Chief Joseph, a member of the  Nez Perce tribe in Idaho, known for breeding the Appaloosa horses and for being one of the last tribes to capitulate to the US forces.

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