I am inspired by an archive of family owned black and white news and campaign photographs taken in New York City where I grew up from the 1960s during a time of great national upheaval that parallels the tenor of today.  I had a front row seat as a very young child to these events through my familys’ participation in my father’s political campaigns and as a political news editor. Family campaign photos, images of Dr Spock at MLK’s funeral, Bobby Kennedy for President and New Jersey mobsters; I revisit these photographs from an interior perspective in a series of cropped compositionally tonalist watercolors painted on black paper. Exploring these subjects in these lower registers of color and liquidy puddles of pigment, strokes and memory is what fascinates me.