The paintings in this new collection set out to reconcile an insistent groundlessness that seems to pervade a media based culture. In these paintings, a new sense of balance is woven together purposely from a place of struggle. This work is about an effort to protect the wild part of our soul that seems to never to be affected by the circumstances of our finite lives.  It requires from us an unwavering self-awareness and asks that we welcome the broken and discordant elements into our heart. In the end this emotional space frees us to the extent we are to show up and be seen ultimately placing these experiences into a new alchemical role of teacher and mentor. This willingness to still oneself provides a path to stay present with the shakiness of hopelessness, choosing whole-hearted presence over the masquerade of a posturing public self.

It may start with railing against a sadness, wrestling it apart from falsehoods that obscured the truth and essence of being “human”. Things arise and alternately also dissolve, there is no escape. We can’t out run this truth. No one is ever spared. We have to learn to love it all anyway.  Loving the demons we once loathed demands that we let go of having things fixed into a permanent way of being. The power of this life is the multiplicities of states we all pass in and out of over a course of a lifetime. The light and shadows of our lives in the end are one and the same. It seems this impermanence is the substance we must learn to love, dissolving the struggle so we can return to ourselves.