Of Thoughts and Dreams This print was inspired by an amazing music video by Los Lobos called “Kiko and the Lavender Moon”. The imagery in this video must owe influence to such imaginative sources as the French Circus and the early silent film classic, “A Trip to the Moon” (France, 1902), by French director Georges Melies (1861 1938) in his version of the Jules Verne story. the screen's first science fiction story.
Click this image for details	Many images for this work were photographed around the West End of London, where I was living at the time, as well as from the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington. The caryatids or architectural figures that book- end the top corners of this print were photographed from a building across the street and a bit South from the Holborn Tube Station on Kingsway and Parker Street This process of gathering elements, placing them in new contexts to create an original expression is just one of the challenges that stimulate and drive me and my work. The Satyre figure was originally photographed at the Victoria & Albert Museum and later printed in both photographic and hand drawn lithographic plate to enhance the image beyond that of a cold mechanically generated photgraph for this dream- like print.
	Aviv, the model in this work, was the first live model I’d worked with who wasn’t a close friend. Aviv was a student in my Halls of Residence during my University days in London. He had previously done some professional modeling work in Israel before coming to London to study at the Imperial College of Sciences. I love this shot! It has an oddly classic quality even though Aviv is lying on the ground staring blankly up at the ceiling. I think his gaze helps the viewer percieve an introspective quality to this image which helps convey the idea that this is all a dream.
“Of Thoughts and Dreams” was created from 31 separate lithographic plates and was printed at Artichoke Print Workshop, London, This print is in the collections of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers Diploma Collection, housed at the Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, England, and the Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.