LF: Aside from the fact that they are two-dimensional, my drawings are an independent expression. They are not drawings for sculpture, they are drawings for me. They are the finished product. Ten years ago my drawings looked like photographs - super real. I spent so much time on them I stopped enjoying them - so I stopped drawing them. For the next seven years, my drawings were only one-minute sketches, a kind of visual shorthand. I was simply thinking on paper. As I began to see these quick drawings as having a certain power and vitality, the urge came again to draw. My current drawings are fairly quick and are a delight to me. Now I work with the essence of drawing - line and contour. Already, I'm thinking of color lithographs.

MCM: Would you say your philosophy is complicated?

LF: Complicated? I've never thought of it as complicated. I've simply attempted to find answers to questions as they come up. Answers that satisfy me.

MCM: With so many facets in your life, how do you maintain balance?

LF: The balance for me has not been easy. Too often I seem to vacillate just off center. I try too hard. When I shout at the elements, I usually get rain in my face, but when I flow with them, my life runs unbelievably smooth. For too often I talk to my God but do not take time to listen. One day I will learn the currents of life. I feel my work deeply. My work is my life, my pleasure, and my burden.

Lincoln Fox HUMPBACK FLUTE PLAYER (humpback man), bronze, h 15 Courtesy of Coronado Galleries, El Paso, Texas