Contrary to the over-stimulating visual experiences in contemporary culture, the Being and Light paintings arise from a peaceful, non-assertive, contemplative world. Together with reductions in compositional structure, where most compositions result in a fluctuation of geometric structure and space, I primarily worked with only three hues, ultramarine blue, raw umber, and white. Water, dirt, and light. To build up various sequences of planes I painted the subtle variations of hues and values that correspond to movements of planes. Being, tranquility of presence, tenderness of gaze, guided by subtle movement of light is at the core of this body of work.
Continuing with the similar visual syntax, another series emerged called Password: Antidepressants where geometric and the atmospheric planes are interrupted with pills, passwords, and symbols borrowed from a parallel world of computer screens. In this world passwords open windows and doors through which arrows direct our minds and we believe that our greatest new tool is an extension of our body and intellect. Or, have our roles reversed?
Am I at the end of that potent world hoping to be a part of it by fearful submission? Are my passwords only a human intervention created to offer its user a false sense of superiority? Is the world we are creating, as a self-destructive technological civilization, in desperate need of more and more pills? Pills. Pills. Pills.
