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One can never become too well acquainted with the mystery of life and with life forces. I am reminded of Rachel Carson's work and my 'knowing'' that she had come to understand the wholeness of seemingly fragmented systems of communities of living things. She saw these communities were in fact seamless. She "'got it." And so she tried to teach us how to honor and protect it. Through my paintings, I am continually exploring how nature, essential and primal, is a tuning fork for all life. I am in awe of the primal rhythms and instinctual intelligence common to all life forms. This is a VAST energy system period. I believe that, to the extent that we turn our backs on the fundamental laws of nature we will undermine life, as we know it, fall out of harmony and out of communion with what sustains fife. As an artist, this understanding is the foundation of everything I do, whether a landscape, portrait or seascape. I must choose to be open to life's energy, intrigued by its mystery and reassured by its continuity. I believe the "perfect artistic moment" is perhaps one where self-consciousness and separation fall away. We are one with the creative experience belonging to it in a sacred tryst. I hope my work will move people into their own mystery and in taking a place in their lives, will nudge them serve them and nourish them. |
