The inhumanity and horror perpetrated in our world is a reality that we must not ignore. Murder, famine, war, abuse, exploitation, and terror continue to be operative words in our global vocabulary. Uganda, Somalia, Rwanda, Darfur, Kosovo, Bosnia, Cambodia, Vietnam, continue to be indelibly etched in our collective memory as horrific killing fields. And Stalin, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, and Hitler will forever symbolize evil incarnate.

This inherent inhumanity of humankind against humankind stirs my desire to visually represent the suffering and despair of its victims. What compels me to do this is my belief that the propensity for evil is in every human heart. A clear example of this human dark-side is the inhumanity and horror perpetrated in Europe during the reign of the Third Reich. After all, Adolf Hitler by himself was just a failed artist. Heinrich Himmler by himself was just a farmer. Joseph Goebbels by himself was just a journalist. As individuals they were non-entities. They did not matter. However, brought together they became the dehumanizing and fanatic force that fueled the Nazi mass-murder machine.

In my work I visually explore the horror of the Holocaust with the tacit understanding that nothing can compensate for the actual experience of being in a death camp. Nevertheless, I can endeavor to keep the horrific memory alive, to be an advocate recorder for the approximate six million persons who walked to their murder lulled by the deceptive propaganda slogan “Work Makes You Free.”

Sadly, the murmur of genocide continues to reverberate today. And so, I’m expanding my horizons to explore and record the new killing fields.

Neither you nor I have the right to forget our inherent propensity for cruelty. Once we forget, you can be my executioner, or I can be your murderer.