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Nebulous Realms
“My work is process-based and improvisational, strad- dling the nebulous realm between the mystical and
the mysterious and thus, to me, the spiritual. A personal jour- ney of exploration through the alchemy of paint, color, light, texture and the poetics of space.
I am interested in the crossing point of the unconscious, the personal and the collective, and energies that come to surface from the interplay of primordial contradictory forces–those within and without–on the surface of the painting. An unfold- ing evolutionary process through densely layered organic compositions made over time with layer upon layers of thick and thin washes and glazes, luminous and opaque. Often starting with calligraphic gestural marks, solid forms which then dissolve as the layers explode and implode, are added, rubbed out, re-applied, scoured into and scraped away. Going back and forth until another dimension–a sense of resonance– arises, when the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, where forms and marks become metaphors for a tran- scendent reality.”
Kōan Paradoxes: used in Zen Buddhism to break through and directly perceive reality with the wisdom eye.
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