Artist’s statement
Dear Beholder:
Art galleries gift me something sublime
Something far more profound
Than pleasant times
With pictures.
In the altered states
Of these moments
I am in Heaven.
The simple goal of my art
Is to converse with you
About art as vehicle
To Heaven.
To the soul suspended
In art-gallery-openness
Art gifts beauty
Discovery
Joy.
Here is the nub:
Art is a bridge
Walking this bridge
Each of us connects
With the inner sublime.
Walking this bridge
Returns us to our all-but-obliterated birthright
Of a life spent in everyday Heaven.
Here is word-sketch:
Magic happens
When we engage with art.
With each picture
We return again and again
To its real surface
We drink its real hues
We follow real marks
Real brushstrokes
Every one somehow
A word-free metaphor for the home that lies deep within us
We delight
In real points
Of visual surprise
We yield to mental rhythm
Washing us free of inner words
Free of the concepts that keep us
From full
Felt
Experience.
With art
We slip
Into the sweet space
That holds the normally-submerged nine tenths
Of our true selves.
So familiar, so warm, so beautiful
Here, Life is perfect
Here, we are Home.
All too rarely do we dwell in this place
With a head full of inner voice
We struggle even to find our way back here
Let alone stay here.
Yet engaged encounters with art
Guide me
Surefooted
Back
Into this most precious core of my being
Back
To my true home
Every time
With ease.
All you will find
On this site
Are the field notes made
On my journey so far
As I have followed my sense of wonder
As I have tried to understand
What happens to me
In the presence
Of art
As I have tried to uncover a process
By which the magic happens
And all other semblance of process disappears
The purpose of my art is to share with you what I find.
Does similar process
Unfold in you
Dear Beholder?
Could more reflection
New insight
New process
Deliver yet more magical experience
For both of us
In the full Presence of Art?
Fluttering
In the wings of consciousness
Art waits
To make the gift
Of Everyday Heaven.
Please
If you can
Write
Tell me what you find…..