It is the task of the artist to try and see the world as it actually is, not merely as it seems to us, based upon the dubious secondhand testimony of our unreliable senses. The artist must grapple with the mysterious poetry of which the world is made, always hoping to find a rare and fleeting glimpse of Truth beyond the veil of illusion that is our thoughts and perceptions of the world. This unknown, mythopoetic foundation of the world consists of two fundamental aspects: One is tangible, aggressively pushing out into the everchanging dynamic processes of the brutal cosmos; the Other is intangible, gently beckoning inward to an eternal tranquility that, in its infinite perfection, never changes. There is only That which moves and That which does not. In my work generally speaking, if it is hard and sharp and craggy, if it is gnarled and bent and growing, if it is blowing, surging, falling, if it is bright and shining and burning, if it is objects we can touch and processes we can observe, then it represents the masculine dynamic immanent in the cosmos. Ever aspiring, ever dying, ever reborn again to evolve in new form and ambition. Action and Power. But there is another presence here, an ethereal, unseen reason to exist that compels the manifest world to action, an essential catalyst and guiding motivation around which the universe revolves on its inscrutable journey, a silent invitation into discovery that dwells in the sacred heart of existence. Mathematics, geometry, archetypal forms, the Laws of Nature. In my work, the Mystery of the Cosmos and the Mystery of the Woman are the same: Source, Destination, and Purpose of all things. Stillness and Beauty. These paintings are dreamscapes of the First Ancestors, the Omnimorphic Parents from whom all forms of the cosmos have inherited their form; they are images of a sometimes beautiful and sometimes monstrous romance...of Hope and Despair, of Desire and Fear, of Beginnings and Endings...

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