“I had been thinking about Janussian thinking one day when buying a sandwich at at a deli.  An image illustrating the concept immediately formed in my mind’s eye when I saw “Ham and Swiss on Rye” on the menu—leading me to paint six different versions of the superimposed words.  I refer to the resulting shapes and colors as “stem cells“, terminology reflecting my long-term career in the medical sciences.”

“The stem cells took a life of their own in “zooms,” (above) a name given by my good French artist friend, Gabrielle THIERRY.”

Zooms were featured in gallery shows in Chicago in 2012 and shown in a new corporate office and a downtown club in 2015.