I am an artist, 72, living and traveling in my motorhome for half the year, and traveling internationally the other half. In this way, I plan to experience the entire world as my home, and everyone as a close neighbor. And as an artist, I seek to find a creative response to life as it unfolds.

Native of Cleveland, Ohio and graduate of John Carroll University, 1970 B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting; minors in Biology and Chemistry); Magna Cum Laude (1st in Accounting, 1st in School of Business) Certified Public Accountant.

Career Highlights:

Exceptional academics; "€Big Eight" €public accounting; senior executive reporting to COB of Fortune 35 Company at age 37; successful consulting practice in San Francisco for 10 years; career and lifestyle change to artist; body of artwork in poetry, one-page stories, sculpture, installations, performances, collages, photos and drawings.

Passion and Purpose:

I'm engaged in a worldwide social art project entitled "Unity". Imagine a giant pyramid (tetrahedron) circumscribed within the Earth, its points emerging at 4 equidistant locations around the globe. A NASA mathematician helped determine the "best fit" of the four Unity points: Canberra, Australia; Anchorage, Alaska; Tucuman, Argentina; and Harar, Ethiopia.

Traveling to each city, I'm constructing sculptures at 4 major universities representing the tips of the giant pyramid. One is nearly complete in Harar, and I'm currently in Tucuman building another at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.

The artistic intent of the sculptures is to help people experience the world more 3-dimensionally. The sculptures will act as 3-D distance markers, showing the distances between the cities, both through the Earth and over its surface. Most Importantly, the 4 universities will interact in various ways, for example, with webcams at each location, enabling people to see and speak with each other. Other possibilities include student/art excahanges, joint cultural events, simulcast meetings, coordinated garden projects, etc.

In this way, Unity aims to promulgate a "Shared Garden" view of the world, replacing the existing "Warrior Model" as the predominant paradigm. Through their cooperative interactions, these universities will exemplify what it means to be true "World Citizens", leading by example to more quickly transform our troubled world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can host when I am not traveling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I CouchSurfed with several people in Europe, Asia and South America. Everyone gave me a good reference.

Interests

Art, Travel, Movies, Reading

• arts
• poetry
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• biology
• business
• chemistry

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Avatar, My Cousin Vinny, The Natural, The Sting, Raging Bull, The Wedding Crashers, Titanic, Pulp Fiction, Tin Cup, The Departed, Blade Runner, Soldier, Terminator 2, History of the World, Part 1, The Godfather Trilogy, Legally Blonde, The Mask, Liar Liar

MUSIC: The Eagles, Steely Dan, Credence Clearwater Revival, Jazz, Ragae

TV: News Radio, Taxi, Cheers

BOOKS: Art and Physics; Goedel, Escher, Bach; The I Ching Workbook; The Tao of Power; and others too numerous to mention

Heros: Gandhi; D'Vinci; Einstein; Eisenhower

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've traveled a lot and seen a bunch, but I'm still exploring to find/do something that is truly amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

See above

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Monaco, Peru, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States