Believe

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on canvas, 30” x 20”, 2024

In the TV sitcom ‘Ted Lasso’, a sign is hung up in the locker room. It says BELIEVE. Here, the letters are shown as blue bars, whose lengths correspond to how frequently each letter appear in the English language: ‘B’ appears 1.49%, ‘E’ 12.02%, ‘L’ 3.98%, ‘I’ 7.31%, and ‘V’ 1.11%.

“Believe” is an expression that AFC Richmond (a fictional soccer team) use to pull themselves up from their middling position in England’s Premier League and apply to their off-pitch lives. It's also their motivational poster sign for their own everyday lives created by Ted Lasso, an American football coach who was hired to coach a professional soccer team in England. As expected, it’s not going too well at first.

The sitcom initially comes across and is advertised as a comedy but some episodes and scenes make viewers think - sometimes with tears in their eyes.

Close Your Eyes And Breathe

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on MDF and plywood. Outer diameter approximately 48”, 2024

Letters are represented by colored segments; their sizes correlate with how frequently the letters appear in the English language. To be read from the top, ‘12 o’clock’, clockwise. White segments represent gap between words.

Sometimes, one forgets to drop one’s shoulders, to relax, to close one’s eyes and to take a breath. This piece is supposed to be a subtle reminder to decompress.

Love

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”, 2022

The letters L, O, V, and E are shown as colored square frames. Their different volumes represent how often these letters appear in the English language: the more frequent a letter apears, the more volumenous the frame.

To be read from the center of the square (Purple = L, Red = O, Light Blue = V, Orange = E).

Love

Carpe Diem

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on MDF and plywood. Outer diameter 28.5" (725mm), inner diameter 18" (460mm), 2024

Letter are represented by color segments, their size relating to how frequently each letter appears in the English language. To be 'read' clockwise from the top (12 o'clock)

RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

Synesthesia Art

RBG (as in “Ruth Bader Ginsburg”, the late US Supreme Court judge)

Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”, 2022

The initials R, B and G are color-coded and arranged as centered square frames. Each frame’s thickness represents the letter’s frequency in the English language: ‘R’ is represented by green, ‘B’ as red, and ‘G’ as white.

I Am A Man

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on canvas 36” x 24”, 2022

Inspired by the iconic poster by the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union in 1968, the letters spelling out "I am a man" are color-coded: the top left yellow rectangle stands for “I”. The top right rectange and bottom left rectange stand for “M”. The tall rectangle in the middle represents the three “A’s”. The bottom right rectangle repesents “N”.

FUCK

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”, 2021

The letters F, U, C, and K are color-coded and are shown as square frames. Each frame’s thickness represents its letter’s frequency in the English language: the letter ‘F’ is shown as grey, ‘U’ and ‘C’ are in shades of green, and ‘K’ is represented as yellow.

Michelle's Words

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”, 2017

The letters are displayed as color bars. Their lengths are correlated to each letter’s frequency in the English language. To be read from bottom left of the painting counterclockwise:

“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprive itself of the contributions of half of its citizens” Michelle Obama

This painting was my first synesthesia artwork. It was a donation 'The Connection' (a local organization) as part of a fundraiser which was held at a local country club. After the event, I contacted the organizer and asked how it was received by the attendees. She said "the liked it until they read who said the quote." Nevertheless, it was snapped up.

Peace

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on canvas, 30” x 48”, 2017

Letters are represented by color bars. Their thickness correlates to how frequently they appear in the English language. From left to right it reads “Peace”.

Be Kind Or Leave

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on canvas, 40” x 40”, 2024

Letters are shown as colored bars. Their different lengths correspond to how frequently they appear in the English language. The top part of the square reads from left to right: “Be Kind”, the bottom part: “Or Leave”.

Call Your Mom

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on plywood, Outer diameter 23.5 inches

Letters are shown as colored sections. White sections stand for gaps between words and digraph (LL).

The more frequent the letter appears in the English language, the larger the section.

To be read from top (12 o’clock) counterclockwise.

This piece was made to remind my son to call his mom occassionally while he’s at university. It now hangs in his dorm room.

Everything In Life Is Temporary

Synesthesia Art

Acrylic on MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard), 9.5 inches x 86 inches x 1.5 inches, 2025

Letters are shown as rectangles in different sizes. The larger the rectangle, the more frequently the letter appears in the English language. Read from top to bottom, except "is" and "in" are read from left to right.

What Every American Aspires To

Acrylic on Canvas, 48 inches x 48 inches x 2 inches

2021

Somewhere I have read that every American works towards calling a white picked fence his/her own. That led me to create this painting with the horizontal bar disecting the picture in two halves. The blue background shows the sky, the green background the lawn. The relationship of the area showing the sky to the one showing the lawn is accoring to the Golden Ratio (1:1.618)

Joey's Hearts

Acrylic on canvas, 34 inches x 34 inches

2023

Inspired by a scene in the TV sitcom “Friends”. One character, Joey Tribiani, has an audition in an office and in the background hangs a painting of nesting hearts.

KellyAnne's Cubism

Alternative Facts Art

Acrylic on plywood, 33.75 inches per side

2017

Former U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers at Donald Trump's first inauguration as President of the United States. When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why Spicer would "utter a provable falsehood", Conway stated that Spicer was giving "alternative facts".

I thought, on that note, here is a painting of squares and rectangles that Ms Conway might enjoy looking at.

Golden Banners

Interior Design Art

Emulsion on sheetrock

2018

Our dining room looked a bit boring, so I thought I would spruce it up with banners of golden paint swirling on the walls and ceiling. It has since been over-painted.

Glitteroval

Interior Design Art

Glass, rock and epoxy on glass mirror, 24 inches x 17 inches

2022

Glass Pebbles on Mirror

Interior Design Art

Glass, rocks and epoxy on glass mirror, 24 inches x 17 inches

2022

Book As Hook

Interior Design Art

Book, brass hook and screws

2012

Screwing a hook on the inside of your entrance door so you can hang your dry cleaning is something everyone seems to do. I thought I’d give it a bit of a twist…

Wrong Time

Interior Design Art

MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard), wood veneer, metal

Approximate diameter 19 inches

2019

The clock (body, mechanism, clips and rods) is prefabricated; so are the aluminum decals. The combination of the clock with numbered decals clearly at the wrong location show, that one is used to seeing things the way “they have always been”. Or are they supposed to see things a certain way?

For example, here, ‘12 o’clock’ is marked by an upside down ‘7’.

What takes precedent: the usual location of 12 o’clock in the middle on top - or the number? Maybe look twice before you make a call?

In other words: things are not always what they seem to be.

Trees as Bookshelves

Interior Design Art

Veneered plywood, 71 inches x 96 inches x 6.25 inches and 69 inches x 96 inches 6.25 inches

2012

My wife wanted to have bookshelves that were a bit out of the ordinary and resembled trees or tree branches. I made them in our garage.

Framed Thermostat

Interior Design Art

Emulsion on sheetrock + frame, 11 inches x 13.5 inches

2018

Looking at one of our house’s thermostats, which I found boring, I thought how it would look if I put a frame around it. To highlight, I painted the background yellow.

Oceans

Spatula Art

Acrylic on canvas

48 inches x 36 inches

2020

One afternoon I thought I’d just quickly paint using only spatulas. I think I used an old credit card.

Water

Epoxy Art

Epoxy on plywood

20 inches x 20 inches

2016

This piece was a donation for the Visual Arts Center’s annual fundraiser in Summit, New Jersey. Apparently, it now hangs in the home of a New Yorker, whom I have yet to meet.

Karen

Epoxy Art

Epoxy on plywood, 20 inches x 27.5 inches

2016

The Accountant's Art Work

Dripart

Acrylic on canvas, 48 inches x 30 inches

2017

The motivation to create that piece came to me after I’ve watched “The Accountant” (2016). In one of the scenes, the accountant Christian Wolff, played by Ben Affleck, looks up at the ceiling of his camper trailer. Mounted on it was a the painting “Free Form” by Jackson Pollock which he painted in 1946. (In the movie it was a reproduction)

Since I am a fan of Jackson Pollock and would love to own one of his works, this one in particular - but cannot afford it (yet) - I thought I’d make one myself. So, this is it.