My Maximalist Urban Landscapes were as a response my realisation I was frustrated by the finite borders of images  At that time I hated modernist 70s style minimallism with a passion and loved to command views - entire fields of vision - open-ended as they are with all their endless complexity.  I discovered that my feild of vision most resembles that of a 180 degree fish-eye-lens, but that unlike a flat piece of film my brain could perceive the real-space with no need for the fish-eye distortion.  I had a great desire to reconstruct with art the visual experience of being there.  I also discovered that nobody then had heard the word "maximalism", most didn't approve of it and that my life was never, ever, going to be easy.

606 Yonge Street, Toronto, 1985

This is the view from the windows of my bohemian-deco apartment at 606 Yonge Street.  I spent many hours over many years sitting in those windows, reading or looking out over the world.  This is the first of many in the successful series and one of my most inspired creations.  My preferred support for many of these was weathered, warped plywood - and would often employ real objects found at or near the location of the view.

Ave B @ 2nd St. NYC, 1989

This was my favourite of the series, and thankfully one of the "better" photographed although photographs can never do these justice given that they were made in a large part due to the inadequacy of photograpy to accomplish what I was able to with these works.   This was the abandoned "GAS STATION" at Avenue B at 2nd Street in New York City's Lower East Side that we had reclaimed as an outdoor sculpture garden, performance space, bar, public art billboard and metal shop. 

A Stink in the Harbour, Hong Kong 1991

This was a collage I did from photographs taken and memorabilia collected from when I lived in Hong Kong in 1991 when it was still under British Rule,  The dual view is of Hong Kong viewed from Kowloon near the Star Ferry docks, and from along the outside of the forbidden city, now destroyed, which had been built ad-hoc with no regulation on ungoverned land.  Hong Kong at that time was still under British rule. 

Nice City Needs Colour, Yonge & Bloor, Toronto

I did some from this series in a less maximalist style, attached with silicon sealant to metal wire grids so as to allow the collage of photographs to inhabit the real space of the viewer without any rigid framing device.

Yonge & Queen Streets, Toronto

Being large and heavy the works from this series were expensive and difficult for me to keep and so most were sold or given away.  They were also very difficult, I would say impossible, to photograph given that they were necessary for me to make partly because a photograph's inability to accomplish what I was able to accomplish with them.

Unfortunately, the best works, including 606 Yonge Street and Ave. B @ 2nd Street were lost to a wealthy art collector who lived in a large house near Rosedale.   He had yet to pay me for half when he decided to use his possession of them to blackmail me into serving legal papers with spurious charges to his former doctor for whom he had insane romantic fantasies and who had put a restraining order against him.   The situation was horrible and unexpected, but I feel I made the right decision in refusing to be manipulated.   He was very angry at my refusal and promised to destroy all of my work in his posession - which I assume he has done.  All I could do was walk away.