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Marshall McLuhan held controversial views on the effect of the communication media, claiming that it is the media, not the information and ideas which they disseminate, that influence society. His most famous quote, and the title of his book; “THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE” said it all.

The “medium” in my works is not the paint. It is not the atmospherics. It is the airplane and/or the aviator. Though I have been careful to portray airplanes in realistic spatial relationships where appropriate, my primary focus is the airplane itself. Those wonderful machines that have transported us, both literally and figuratively. The foregoing notwithstanding, to get the “medium” into the two-dimensional world of art requires the use of other media.