In planning my retrospective, I decided to set

myself a different challenge: to celebrate my

mentors and influences from the mid-1960s to

the present. In so doing, I want to express my

gratitude for all of their inspiration by looking

at their work in photography, painting, music

and poetry that has profoundly affected me

through all these years. The works in this exhibition

were developed by using jazz music as

an inspiration, a form of music characterized

by complex harmony, syncopated rhythms and

extensive improvisation. The goal has been to

create a juxtaposition of two images printed on

the same sheet of paper, thereby producing

visuals in prose and in poetic rhymes