This is more of a hobby than anything else. Occassionally I re-do it. This time I am using some of Yahoo's YUI framework to implement some of the pop-ups and other navigational devices. This site appears to work well in most versions of IE and FireFox. If you notice any strange bugs when navigating from one page to another, please let me know. I should emphasize that many images are loaded onto these pages;thus you need a good computer with lots of memory and processor power. This is basically a site devoted to artistic things. This is not a software site; Though I will try to use some interesting YUI widgets whenever possible. I should mention that pages containing images are generated by various java programs I have written. I cannot seem to find any products on line right now to do what I wish to do. So I have to write the programs to generate the pages.

The most interesting things I can say about myself on a personal level mainly come from my unique past. My first career was that of a Jazz Flautist. I am still a Jazz Flutist, er , Flautist in my dreams. Dream analysis is one of my hobbies; so I mention the fact that In my dreams, I actively live the life of a jazz Flautist. Another interesting fact is where I have lived. I grew up in many places: Tennessee, Japan, Illinois, Indiana and Philadelphia. And being a black person simply adds a sort of colorful topping to some type of cake. My present job is that of a computer programmer in the financial sector.
artist photo

Every artist must have some sort of statement or statements.
artist statement

This link will take you to my Pastel Paintings. Several large images will be loaded so be patient.
Pastel Paintings

I take the digital image of an original Pastel Painting. Then I process it thru various types of filters. The result is a completely new image. These images are capable of being blown up very large because of the size of the resultant image file, i.e over 30 megabytes in size.
Digital images

This page is still undergoing changes. I plan on creating several pages containing photographs that I take using my digital camera. I am just learning how to use it and how to take photographs of people and things. This is very difficult to do. The page is in it's infancy right now and only uses simple html markup.
My New Photo Links

I created a small set of pages using the cafepress site for selling various items with my paintings on them. If you like such things please visit this site and purchase a t-shirt.
purchase t shirts, mugs, etc