My paintings are an integral part of who I am, they spring from the experience of waking life, strange memories, dreams and meditative states of consciousness. There is almost no separation between my thoughts, beliefs and experiences and how I express myself visually. I discovered a talent to externalize what I see in my mind's eye from a very early age, which grew over time to become the driving force of my life.
Inspiration changes with life, when I was younger it came mostly from the media that surrounded me, movies, books, television. Now it's almost become part of a spiritual practice. Meditation has become a regular part of my life for the better part of 20 years and a source of creative inspiration. In deep theta states I see things I try to bring to the surface through my art, chimeric angels of multicoloured metals, organic landscapes oozing like sentient thunder storms and coral cities waving in the ether. The gamut of life is there, seen through a waking dream.
To me art is the blurring of the objective and subjective, as external reality and the imaginal become one. If there is any goal for what I do it is to open peoples minds, to bring them images that haven't been seen before. When we experience the new it opens the mind to further possibilities of experience, an ever expanding feedback loop of novelty. They are thought forms made flesh, living through the minds of those who see them. It is to dance on the edge of reality and bring back what I see.
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