Paintings 2009 / 2010

While visiting Thailand in 2005, I spoke with a Buddhist monk who laughingly said "I? There is no I!". After traveling for 6 months through Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, and Japan, in 2008; I decided to incorporate the many impressions from temple, traditional, and contemporary art into new paintings. After being amidst powerful vibrations and multiple varied experiences in Asia, this which "I" call "I" began these paintings with an open approach; based on some images from sketchbooks, photographs, memories of beautiful decay....letting intuition be a guide. The resulting paintings are that of a human on West Coast America filtering multiple impressions from places of quiet and clarity through a mind affected by the entanglements of the contemporary industrialized world.

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