Artist’s Statement

These images are metaphors for unknown physical or metaphysical phenomena. They are intended as an intermediary between the divine and the physical senses: ambiguous and suggestive - universal yet personal - deliberately left open to intellectual and intuitive comprehension by your personal inner filters. I want to capture your imagination with questions that move you past your conceptual limitations.

It is our nature to catalog incoming information into established paradigms of our physical and psychological world. Philosophers and scientists know that these ideas and beliefs are evolving and not rooted in concrete reality. In my work, I offer images that suggest a different reality or invite a paradigm shift in our understanding of reality. I want to arouse a sense of awe and evoke a cosmological wonder similar to what one experiences when looking at a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The paintings are not about my own feelings or the mysteries of my own personality but rather our connection to the underlying consciousness of reality, manifestation of our physical and psychological world by our will or cosmic design, the quest for the inner source of our being, and the greater meaning we attach to what we see.

Each painting is infused with an energy dynamic that moves you out of alignment with your normal perceptions of the world. Here is something that is reminiscent of the familiar, but with a twist, an anomaly, something unexpected and heretofore unexplained.

I find fascinating viewer explanations of what they 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, your perception of this work is wholly dependent on the meaning and awareness that you bring to it. It is my hope that your perception leads - as mine does in the execution of the work - to the sublime, the inspirational, and perhaps even the divine.