Art & Illustration
The not quite poetic other world
I collect ideas and feelings. I document them to keep them safe and alive. The best ones are the ones that seem part of a bigger picture and are accompanied by the urge to express. The only problem is the ideas come in fragments and the feelings without words. The hope is they come together […]
Making art from the beginning of time
In the last few years I have been playing with the idea of the beginning of time in my art. Its a kind of creationism-evolution space in time. Specifically, the few years after the seven days of creation and long before the dinosaurs. In this world birds are the first life forms and are the […]
Temple Grandin and our different brains
A lot of my life I have been trying to fit into the world as defined by everyone else. To counter this struggle I spend hours and hours making art in my own world where creative energy reigns. This is a beautiful thing and for the most part, I am a happy person. Still, the world […]
Under the surface and the artists consciousness
A painting is a record of the artists consciousness. Accumulated moments of process fuse together and when complete, form a record of experience.The painting becomes a map of time spent, recognizable only to the painter. It’s not like a photo that captures an instant, but more like a series of actions documented in visual language. […]
Portals, entry to another dimension
I love portals. Invisible doorways, gates, entrances to another space of being. Portals in art lead me from one state of mind to a richer more expanded state of mind and to a different mode of creation. Portals are not ideas but a form of experience. They emerge and magically reveal themselves, then create a […]
The importance of a great teacher
So many of the ideas I explore in this blog come from seeds planted by David J. Passalaqua (1936-2004). Dave was a master artist but even more importantly to me, an extraordinary master teacher. Dave showed me a world that had always existed behind a locked gate. He knew exactly what Picasso, Michelangelo and all […]
Art, science and experience
I am very excited to be working on an art project/book with Michael Abrahams, MD. I recently had a significant medical journey which I documented visually through drawings. The drawings are personal and poetic and describe the patient experience. I had the idea that the images could be enhanced by Dr. Abrahams describing what was happening clinically in […]
A pure experience of the What Is
Experience…of art creating itself inside me. Experience…of the world as poetic. They both come from here, from one place, the present moment. They are born from here and they live from here. They are alive here. Not thought, not thought at all, but the pure experience of What Is. Thinking…of tomorrow. Thoughts…of ideas for the […]
A thousand threads: what this drawing means
I was recently in an art show called A Thousand Threads and was required to do a little explaining…. Imagine a thousand delicate threads connecting all things. If we were to feel theses energetic threads and how they connect us to all living things we would exist in a state of oneness. What is it […]