My memories began in the first of two public housing projects where our family lived in a 2 1/2 room unit. These accommodations were for applicants whose earnings didn’t exceed a certain limit. + Named after the circus magnate, P.T. Barnum, our second apartment complex was roomier, but it contained 504 families in close quarters and was built on the site of the city dump - which, not relocated, continued to function and burn. + I started guitar lessons, oil painting and reading. My father died and I contracted polio just before high school. An interest in jazz, blues and early rock took hold while I painted murals for school plays and worked nights at the Y as a janitor. + I bought a used BSA 650 to get to construction sites, driving flatbeds, gas station jobs, factories, paving driveways and selling encyclopedias. Then marriage was followed by 6 years of army reserves, a daughter, a son, degrees from University of Hartford Art School and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. + The photo collage paintings and bodyprints on sheet glass began in grad school. I taught for 35 years at College for Creative Studies in Detroit and between the years 1976-85 made silent S8 films that were steadfastly based in light, color and movement. Most of these short films (2-51min.) are personal, non-narrative, manifestations of varied processes, materials and history. + They’ve had group and solo screenings at N.Y.C.’s Museum of Modern Art, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Detroit Institute of Arts, San Francisco Cinematheque, University of Michigan, Light & Sound Machine, Indiana University Cinema, Chicago Filmmakers, Rutgers University, Filmoteca De Cantabria, Dartmouth Eyewash, Cineinfinito, Spektrum Theatre - Berlin, The Woodward Lecture Series, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Funnel Experimental Film Theatre of Toronto, Irish Film Institute, Cranbrook Art Museum, and Circuito Nomadica, among others. + I’m now retired (Professor Emeritus), living/working with my wife in Troy, MI + Upon request, screenings are programmed, from the completed 40 titles on the blu-ray package, Prismatic Music. I’m currently restoring/digitizing the remaining films, to be released eventually, as a second collection:  Quondam Exhalations.