The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.