It is an indisputable fact that we are alive during some very interesting and exciting times.  These are also the most complex times in human history.  The world is open to integration and interpretation more than ever before and the effect that art has on us as individuals and as a society is now reaching beyond the borders of any given culture.  Mass communication -- via television, the Internet, and cinema, along with cultural syncretism and networking between nations and even continents, has enabled us as human beings to see beyond ourselves and our own boundaries.

I have chosen to paint on Antiques Piano rolls because of their quiet and delicate nature.  They reflect the use of ancient texts but also reference musical scales which are based on the Fibonacci Series.  Even the keyboard of a piano makes reference to these numbers.  The ancients understood that all things are related to each other by number.  Not just number as a quantity or quality or symbol, but also a number in the space which is geometry, number in time which is music, and number in space-time which is astronomy-astrology.

The ancients understood vibration (Sound - chants, music) they understood geometry (i.e. Circular housing - temples - shape and form) and space-time (Pyramids in relation the heavens) and they used these structures with the knowledge that we would feel, resonate and absorb unconsciously or consciously UNITY without words.

Art is another means of helping people see and better understand the dynamics of our world and how human consciousness impacts it at every level.  My intention in my creative process is to catch attention by creating a visual dialog that the viewer can intimately identify with, and the challenge for me as an artist is to go beyond the internal barriers that separate us from each other.

2007