I’m pleased to meet you.

My desire is that you find my art and thoughts on health pleasing, provoking and inspiring.

Short About stuff.

High School – Average student interested in science and electronics.

Boy Scouts – 11 to 18 and 2000 until 2010. My Dad and both boys (below – June 2015) are Eagle Scouts. Incredibably valuable skills in leadership, accomplishment, and exposure to a large diversity of topics. Also, skills that could be required one day which is why the Motto is “Be Prepared.”

TV repair (and antenna installations) from 15 to 24 (after school and summers).

Started Carnegie Mellon University for Electrical Engineering, three semesters later I started exploring not being in college and noticing art and design. Got my Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (sculpture and jewelry) from CMU on the extended plan. We call that degree a FArts degree which is what is worth as a piece of paper. The experience though was a great discovery of my surroundings and myself though. I thank my professors and my dorm mates for the fork in the road.

Had the serendipitous opportunity to run spot light for 2 summer stock shows – A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Cabaret. Thanks Paul Harman. Met my love and life partner Leslie Goldman (name didn’t change much). She played the Piano for the Orchestra and ended up doing the Musical Direction that summer. She was only 16 and was going to Julliard.

As a result of a trampoline accident Leslie had when she was 15, her piano career was driven into a long hibernation and another serendipitous set of events placed her in a chiropractor’s office. Thank you Ozzie Goldman and Dr. Harvey Cohen. I fixed his electronic nervous system demonstrators, figured out a better mousetrap that lead to 3 patents and many of trademarks and Leslie and I’ve been working at Visual Odyssey for 40 years as I write this. Fifteen years ago, we added software to our product line and 5 years ago, we switched exclusively to software.

Leslie and our first electric typewriter – probably 1983.

Our customer-base is largely the US and global Chiropractic community. Leslie and I are actively promoting what we believe to be reasonable, conservative and natural approaches to diet and health. We readily acknowledge the value of our remarkable science based emergency medical system while we are beyond wary of the profit based pharmacological and surgical  “sick care system” that insurance and our ‘bought’ regulation agencies, politicians, academia and medical associations.

We strongly believe in labeling of foods so we can avoid as much as possible becoming subjects in experiments. We strongly believe that our blood belongs to us, and that no medical intervention should EVER forced on a population. Certainly , not my family. Informed consent and the Nuremberg code should be followed in the US. The first of the 10 points that came from the Nazi trials was:

1. Required is the voluntary, well-informed, understanding consent of the human subject in a full legal capacity.

Therefore vaccination should always have an element of choice.

I’ll save the rest of the soapbox for my blogs.

The aesthetic world came into my view thanks to Laura Goldsmith. She changed my perspective on nature, balance and harmony in art. My love for sculpture and wearable art has been persistent since Walter Groer (sp?) and Doug Pickering and Ron Bennett at CMU taught me techniques and awareness that helped me develop. Conceiving, and modeling in wood, wax, brass, bronze, silver, gold is awesome.

Then I found glass, for the last 6+ years I have been finding moments to stare into the orange plasma of nearly liquid rock as I shape, watch, explore and coerce it into sculptures, pendants and my favorite – marbles. Desk and pocket sculptures. There will be many pictures at this site. Enjoy.

April 2015 North Carolina