I call my current series "Snapshots of the Phenomenal World." Each painting begins with a practice of mindfulness and is driven by spontaneous, now-centered mark-making and layering. Within the dialog, I respond to emerging imagery, moment-by-moment, sometimes painting with the artist's hand and brush, but just as often allowing outside forces like gravity and erosion to play fundamental roles in the emergence of form and pattern. Within this dance of discovery, I may begin to carve or erode what has come to exist. I am following trails of creation and destruction and recreation of form. The individual character of each piece literally evolves over time as the original ground, ingredients and actions become an entity.
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