Artist’s Statement

These images are metaphors for the bond between physical and metaphysical phenomena. They are ambiguous and suggestive - universal yet personal - deliberately left open to intellectual and intuitive comprehension by personal inner filters and belief systems. I want to capture the imagination with questions that transcend normal conceptual limitations.

It is our nature to catalog incoming information into established and restricting paradigms of our physical and psychological world. Philosophers and scientists know that these ideas and beliefs are evolving and not rooted in concrete reality. I offer images to release viewers from restraints that they may have inherited, that suggest a different reality, or invite a paradigm shift in understanding. I want to arouse a feeling of awe and evoke sense of cosmological wonder.

The paintings are not about my own feelings or the mysteries of my own personality. Organic and highly structured, I think of them as visual assertions rather than compositions.

I find fascinating explanations of what observers see as they try to make these images fit into the consensus reality in which we are all normally so heavily invested. As with life itself, perception of this work is wholly dependent on the meaning and awareness that is brought to it. It is my hope that such perception leads - as mine does in the execution of the work - to the sublime and inspirational.