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The number one topic in art history for two thousand plus years has been religion, with western culture embracing Christianity. To no one's surprise, the study of art is the study of man's compliance to these spiritual tenets of the bible. However, the last century discovered Freud and psychology and turned a spiritual paradigm to mental ponderence. The reaction to all this in physical and artistic form was Abstract Expressionism, which remains a parody to religion. We see by design that the pendulum of human acceptance continues to volley the question: Who is our savior? Whether we decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls, measure the ground for H20 on the surface of the Moon for water, or study the effects of micro chips behind the eye of humans to record their every thought pattern, the answers lie with technology.

We see that electricity is our single, most important energy source. Without it we are barbarians reduced to limited travel of the mind. With it, the potentials of life as we know it, are endless. Some would say that electricity is a god given tool provided to man for his own benefit of salvation. Whether that question can be succinctly answered is debatable and left to physicists. We do know one thing, without it, we are lost... like debris floating in space. We would then lose all direction.

We can assuredly associate technology with hope, progress and betterment of society. It has altered our psychology and the way in which we communicate with others. Intelligent property has lead the business industry now for over ten years. The art community lags behind because it is deeply routed into religion which for the great majority is the antithesis of technology. I am counting on this polarization to dissipate. Even the Vatican has a web site. We see then that science, art and religion can live cohesively in one place.

My personal work has been an exploration of a new medium similar to the invention of stained glass in the year 1200. As one can imagine the original tools were crude. I used large studio video cameras that were black and white and then stripped in the color electronically. The only way to capture these images was to set up a camera on a tripod and photograph the screen. After that, photographic prints were made from the resulting image. The scan lines of the television preview monitor were existent. Today, one works with programs that imitate traditional media. In music, it's like making sound so perfect that they now add processors that deteriorate the sound to make it emulate acoustic instruments.

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