Excerpts from viewer emails...


I want to tell you we appreciate your painting of starlings representing our fallen soldiers in Iraq.


I was urged to visit your website by a friend. Your painting is amazing and passionate and so beautiful.


Your painting disputes Richard Serra's comment that "Art is purposely useless."


I am especially touched by your painting representing those who have transitioned because of this war and I was deeply touched. Your work is exquisite and birds are so beautiful in their own right. Using them to represent us and our soul's journey was especially beautiful to me and I wanted to let you know that. Your site tells me many others feel the same way. Keep painting. Your work is beautiful.


And Counting saddens me deeply and their inner spiral up, up is endless and couldn’t be shown another way without darkening the entire canvas and losing the truth of it all.


I am Brazilian and I am looking forward for some changes in the world. Congratulations on your painting and continue with your beautiful work. It is what makes our lives worth something...doing our part in this world. The UN, where I work, fully agrees with your work. Let's have strength.


I'm writing just to say I saw your painting named “And Counting" and liked it very much. My eyes filled with tears.... over the "soul-birds" losing their lives. Really good peace of work.


Your paintings are wonderful and I am so happy to have had the opportunity to view them on your site.


A death for any reason is tragic and worth honoring. Just singling out military deaths fighting to preserve our way of life might feel good but all of those who died volunteered to be in harms way. It is wonderful that in our country you can express your frustrations through your art work in hopes of gathering support. There are many countries you would not be allowed to say and do the things you believe are important. With all due respect, you are missing much larger issues with a greater benefit to our country than just drawing attention to military deaths.


Wow! Thank you for sharing your art and your soul. This is a beautiful tribute to our fallen heroes.


Thanks for your beautiful work.


Great idea for a memorial work - hope you don't have to make it a dyptich or tryptich!


“And Counting” is most impressive – a conceptually strong and timely painting. However, I hope the painting is finished soon. Nonetheless, it deserves to be viewed by a larger audience.


Our soldiers are just the sales tax for a war we are all guilty of buying. Get over yourself and stop painting about this.


Your graphic has much more impact now, and of course every day I hear of more deaths I shake my head in dismay - it's as though the Pentagon is doing little to put a lid on the group behind all the killings and removing the country's weapons.


Truth is the first casualty of war. Paint that!


Your maturation as an artist is quite evident. “And Counting” has had quite an impact. Very moving. A sad subject brought to light through wings. As Emily Dickinson once said, “hope is the thing with feathers,” which resonates with your theme – each bird is not only representative of a loss, but something higher than that.