Over the past twenty-five years, I have investigated humanity's fundamental relationship to nature, and conversely, the destruction of humanity and the natural world through technology, war and pollution. Although I have worked in printmaking, sculpture and painting, my recent installation work combines paintings with mixed-media interlocking pieces to create full-immersion environments.

Between 1980-1990, I created a series of over one hundred earth-based sculptures entitled, Tree People, dedicated to the concept of a metamorphic relationship with nature that begged the question, "How would humanity appear if we were acknowledged our fundamental relationship to nature?" From 1996 to the present, I have worked on two portfolios of oil on canvas entitled, Los Cielos and California Horizons. These portfolios contain giant skies; pristine oceans; and broad landscapes to depict the beauty of and humanity's intrinsic connection to nature.

In 2004, I presented A Prayer for the Earth at the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard, California. This new "full immersion" environment combined paintings and sculpture, a central mandala of manipulated photographs with tragic images of pollution and international indigenous peoples "praying for the earth," all surrounded by an assemblage of symbols of Earth, Water, Fire and Air. This environment pays homage to the significance of nature and its ability to shelter us from the calamities and senseless losses of pollution.

A Prayer for the Earth was also installed at the Natural History Museum of the County of Los Angeles, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, and Ave 50 Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, California in 2006, and will be installed at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in 2007.