Infused in my research and creative work is a consuming fascination and curiosity with the power of theatre and art to affect through story, language, and image. This thread can be traced throughout some of my earliest visual art and is sustained in my plays, essays, short stories and forms one of the basic tenets of my approach to directing. I embrace influences from the work of Charles Mee, who beautifully crafts poignant pictures of humanity and allows them to dissolve and evolve. Similarly the shadow boxes of the visual artist Joseph Cornell are another strong influence, as well as the compendium of Dr. Carl Sagan, who so deftly was able to fuse the exactness of science with the poetry of imagination.