# Media Notes

## Suggested Story Angles

- How expressive distortion can communicate presence more directly than literal likeness.
- The relationship between portraiture and landscape in a single studio practice.
- Color, gesture, and memory as tools for rebuilding an observed subject.
- Maintaining a long-running public studio archive across traditional and digital media.
- The perspective of a Marine Corps combat veteran who later developed a sustained visual-art practice.

## Suggested Interview Topics

- How a work begins and what determines whether it becomes a drawing, painting, or digital image.
- The role of improvisation and revision in portraits.
- Why water, shorelines, mountains, and weather recur in the landscapes.
- The difference between making an original work and preparing a fine-art print.
- What the artist has learned from preserving older work alongside recent work.
