His dry heart is as light
as his lost cause is just.

This is an image of me from several years back, taken by my lovely wife and best friend and constant loving companion in life, Beth Scannell. It's one of the best pictures ever taken of me, even if I didn't shave that day.

I was born in New Jersey, and grew up in the industrial stench and toxic waste dumps that lie between New Brunswick, NJ and the Holland Tunnel. After spending half a year starving in Boston Massachussetts, where I attended SMFA on scholarship, I returned to New Jersey, and finished my BFA at Rutgers University, with a major in Visual Systems Studies, a major of my own invention. After college, I lived in Washington DC for nine long and often miserable years. In April 1991, I moved to San Francisco, CA, and my life immediately and dramatically improved. It was here in San Francisco, a year and a half later, I met Beth, and we soon married. In August 2004, I received my MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. A major milestone in my life, it has re-envigourated my art work on too many levels to count.

On June 22, 1997, our daughter, Elizabeth Anastasia, was born. She is a bright and lovely child, my pride and joy. She loves music by Jane Siberry, The Boards of Canada (ORANGE!) and the Severed Heads. Nothing like a child with good eclectic tastes. She is an excellent artist and attends the French American International School. I'll eventually be putting some pictures of my family and our adventures up here on the web when I can hack out the time to do that.

We also have two cats - brothers - and we've had them since they were 8 weeks old in June 1995. The orange fluffy beast can usually be found snoozing on Elizabeth's bed and the sleek black one is usually slumbering on the couch. They are both totally loveable and utterly useless pets.

We have a rather large music collection- approximately 1100+ CDs, 800+ vinyl records, and about 300 casettes. It's such a strange collection of music, that it has its own name, The Warwick Music Archive, or WMA for short. For a while I refrained from burdening the internet with YET another pointless list of obscure, under-appreciated musical recordings, and have since developed the WMA webpage, mostly for insurance purposes.

Eventually I'll be developing a similar set of pages for our extensive Library as we also have about 800 books packed into bookcases scattered about the house. Other than Beth's extensive shoe selection, some art works by our friends, and several broken down obsolete computer systems doubling as multi-thousand dollar door stops, those are about the only things we really collect.

We live in a small but pleasant house in the middle of San Francisco, backed up to a forest of eucalypts and pine, with a fine view of Sutro Tower, in all of its blinking hideous industrial glory.

If you're looking for my CV, click HERE.

Thanks for visiting, and I wish you all the best.

HW