"Joe Mcgill, through his own invention of  images, inspired frequently by found relics of nature like twigs or fronds, seeks a different reality of nature than is to be found in its normal outer appearance.  He  penetrates his subconscious by a private  intellectual effort and achieves a new and quivering image which he floats or  suspends in his white boxes. As a result, we find ourselves confronted with little two or three-dimensional figures of great  purity and balance often seeming to be transparent as a shadow and capable of  being blown away by a breath. But the closer we examine them the more secure and precisely described they seem. Indeed  they appear to be non-representional  figures, but his titles permit us to share his allusions and discoveries in the process of creativity."

    James White