The Artist
I am on a journey. Beneath everything that manifests, I exist, purely light, shining brightly. My artwork is an exploration and uncovering of that which connects all of us; beneath the panorama of violence, suffering, joys and delights of our existence is the Unity of a single organism living on this planet, our mother, Earth.
Our inner human drama is made dynamic by the myriad of conflicting and variant beliefs, influences from the past, fears, sexual stimulations, desires, hormones and physical sensations that entangle us and obscure our perception of what is real.
I use paint, color, form and imagery to induce a mood in the viewer that reflects the conflagration of thoughts, emotions and desires motivating the figures in my paintings. These psychological tapestries of overlapping and interrupting mythical, mystical confluxes, manifested through texture, color and imagery belie their two-dimensional physicality.
Our inner human drama is made dynamic by the myriad of conflicting and variant beliefs, influences from the past, fears, sexual stimulations, desires, hormones and physical sensations that entangle us and obscure our perception of what is real.
The environments within which the figures play out their drama are metaphors that need little explanation: circus, carnival, the beach as boundary of the subconscious, the restaurant where we indulge our rapacious appetites and display our status.
The goal of my art is to continually acknowledge this panoply and thus to uncover the Light. As the famous Persian mystical poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi has written:
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi ~
