From an early age I spent summers in our father’s machine shop, building parts for his air/sea rescue inventions, welding, operating lathes and Bridgeport milling machines.

In 1963 I took a gap year from college and worked for Franz Berko in Aspen, taking pictures on the mountain and developing them in the darkroom; then as a carpenter in the summer.

Moving to Aspen in 1969, I helped Paul Soldner and Brad Reed start The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, where I taught drawing and sculpture for the next two years, while also building a bronze foundry.

In 1980, Nick DeWolf and I designed and built the world’s first computerized fountain for the Aspen Mall. Using controlled rectifiers to make the water jets dance, it will not repeat the same 20 minute pattern for 75,000 years. Peter Hutter redrew the fountain’s infrastructure in the 1980’s and again in 2015.

Flying, from the time I could reach the pedals of my father’s 1936 Stinson Reliant, has been as integral part of my life. Exploring the Americas and East Africa by bush plane, I have immersed myself in the continuum of life as my source of inspiration.