Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

To take a piece of stone and create emotion out of it, that's what I try to do. There's so many wonderful human emotions that you wouldn't think you could get out of a piece of stone, but for me, that's what I try to do.

I don't know where it's going. And this goes back to my roots in abstract expressionism, which was just coming into commonplace in the sixties when I was at a student at the university of Michigan.

I'm not terribly interested in painting specific places. I paint the coast in Maine, but I'm not painting specific places in Maine. I work from all black and white photographs. I quite often go to the library and I look at the historical archives of photographs in Maine and I pick out images and shapes that I like.