Thinking visually exercises my senses, my body, my emotions, my intellect, and my intuition. The process unifies my being; it roots me in my soul. It places me in a position where I must struggle to make order out of chaos, to invent and test possible solutions, to select, assemble, combine, and discard from various and numerous emergent ideas. Through this process I find resolution, a feeling of completion and aesthetic satisfaction. For me, solving visual problems by trial and error is an adventure into the unknown; it is a search for the “ah ha!” But sometimes I’m surprised to find the “ho hum” and even the “oh no!”
Making art is an internal struggle, a challenge, an opportunity for breakthrough, a possibility for failure. Feeling my way through labyrinths of line and form, light and color, searching for resolution makes me feel alive.
My explorations take me to dwindling trails, dead ends, and countless forks in the road, perplexing decisions--imagining the poetic idea. How best to express it? Selecting appropriate materials, determining a meaningful point(s) of view, organizing objects dynamically in space, discovering and balancing shapes and colors effectively, employing light dramatically—my intuition guides. The results of its decisions create perspective, volume, movement, and texture which establish an emotional, mental and spiritual relationship with you, the viewer.
In practicing this mysterious process, I hope to share with you the poetry of paint and bond in the pleasure of our common humanity.
