I was sitting in front of the fire place, the fire's light setting the room in a soft glow. Needles were buzzing into the soft spot at the nape of the neck. As I stared at the adobe walls I slowly realized I was staring into them. They became vapororous. The walls were still there but were thick fogs rather than things or objects. The entire room and it's contents were the same, including my body and the other bodies that were present. This experience shifted my entire perceptual framework to a world composed of subatomic mists in greater or lesser states of condensation.
The relic and the sacred object are capacities of artworks that are very important to me. The ritual object that serves as a dwelling place for intention. The icon painting, the ritual mask, bronzed baby shoes or bones. Artifacts imbued with the focused energy of their creation.
I am interested in space age myth-making, not only for animals and oceans and volcanoes, but also for subatomic energy... for nuclear gravity and dark matter. These paintings are primitive folk tales symbolizing turbulence, phase space chaos and Lorenz's strange attractor. I want to address the cultural identification with galaxy formation, multidimensional hyper-space and the unconscious abyss.
These works are icon paintings devoted to natural phenomena and the vast, intertwining systems that compose both the experiential world and the universe that exists beyond the reach of daily experience.