While living in Cambridge, Massachusetts between 1968 and 1971, I created a long series of drawings and paintings using a wide variety of media: pencils, pen & ink, markers, acrylics, watercolors, oil pastels and cut paper. At that time, I did not consciously reflect on what what I was creating; I was simply and spontaneously expressing what was naturally in me.Thus I was surprised when a number of people noted a similarity between some of the motifs, colors and styles of my work to the original art forms of the native peoples of North, South and Central America. At first, I was mystified. Then, becoming curious, I did a little research to see if it was true -- and it was!