The name Burning Press has many meanings. It refers to my change in vocation from the material world of printmaking to the virtual world of digital design. The press is no longer my chosen medium for delivering my message. However it is sometimes used as a final step if I deem the image worthy. My moniker also reflects the inflammatory nature of my work. I am unconcerned with society's distinctions of taste. I weave religious iconography with sexual situations and sometimes rail against the military industrial complex.

My personal expressions are usually offensive but reflect my internal struggle to understand how I fit into a society that has rejected and abused me. Throughout my creative life others have employed me to bring forth their commercial visions. I have worked as a metal smith, a motorcycle mechanic, a printmaker, a prepress engineer, a database engineer, a multimedia content engineer, a software engineer, and most recently, a software designer. In all my chosen vocations, I was employed to help consumers interact on a personal level with someone else's vision, never my own. However I have always walked away with another skill to help me achieve my goal of communicating my vision of the world. Unfortunately, as the years fly by, my vision dims.

I must now undertake a new journey to rediscover my internal vision and unleash it on the world, no matter how vile or how poorly it is received. We all have been granted the gift of life. It is in our hands to do with it what we will, and the only judgment levied against us that maters, is the one that comes from ourselves.

I have also finally been granted the gift of true love in the one and only Rebecca Caldwell. As we grow closer together our visions intertwine. She takes a piece of me, and I take a piece of her. It will be an interesting journey as I enter the last half of my life to explore that love and witness the change in my work.

I invite you to witness that change as well...

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