Ancient Hymns

The Ancient Hymns Series is based on a belief that human life is in continuity with the cosmos. I do spiritual chanting as I work with an image’s formal elements. A sense of spirit directs my application of pigment to the canvas. This approach has been shaped by a rootedness in Hinduism’s music, mythology, and symbolism--as well as with the West’s mostly-secular conversation with painterly abstraction. Color, shape, and line strum through my work, animated by a surrender to the possibilities of composition. My art process brings life lessons to me and evokes meditative states. All of this is healing. I want my art to remove the troubling impressions held within my viewers’ psyches. Ultimately finding happiness.