I met David in 1986 at New York University when I started my Ph.D. Course in Art Edfucation. He was teaching "Phenomelogy in the Arts," in which he stressed, particularly, the role of the artist as researcher. Then in 1988, he became my adviser for my Ph.D. dissertation on "A Multicultural Aesthetic Inquiry on Plexus Black Box: An International Community-Based Art Project.." At the same time I was introduced by him to the mission of his ISALTA-International Society for the Advancement of the Living Traditions in Art and in 1990 I became more involved as ISALTA regional director for the Mediterranean region.

Since then David deeply influenced my work as well as the further implementation of the concept of the artist in the first person in the Plexus International’s creative development ..

I would like to honor him and to celebrate the work of this man who was both a outstanding scholar and a great artist in the first person.