My interest in light shows began in the '60s when the hippies developed powerful manipulated light situations to accompany musical events. My exposure to them was mostly secondhand, through pictures in magazines. I began to experiment in my garage with colored lights and simple optical distortions.

In the last ten years I began to experiment with light again and with the help of friends built a little theater to do light shows. In 2002 I did a re-creation of the theater at Pierogi 2000 gallery in Brooklyn and performed daily shows for a month. The light show featured a small rear projection screen, many light sources, stencils and various kinds of refracted light. It did not use the blobby oil and water effects of sixties light shows and was more akin to earlier prehippie light experiments. The methods were not hightech or exotic. Everything constituting the show could be found at a hardware store.

The music for the light show was usually many tapeplayers playing noise provided by friends, or live music on occasion by Alan Licht, the improvisational guitarist. At an installation at Vox Populi gallery in Philadelphia, the band Bardo Pond performed.

Another part of this project were photocopied handbills I made to advertise the show that were posted at Ear Wax, a Williamsburg record shop.

An exciting result of the Pierogi lightshow was that it attacted the interest of Joshua White, one of the most famous and accomplished lightshow artists of the sixties (the Joshua Light Show). Since then, he and I have been collaborating on a better and brighter lightshow which we will stage sometime soon.