PAINTINGS OF THE UNDERWORLDS

The thoughts that I have while painting these works are of the tiny worlds that live beyond our sight. The tiny microscopic worlds were creatures exist so alien to us that they seem to be fictional. The microcosms of the 'UNDERWORLDS.' When I use the word "underworld" I am referring to many tiny worlds that exist all around us, and even upon and within us. I am interested in the flora and fauna that live in these tiny worlds "under" our normal field of vision. The things that one must hunt for in the grass, in the pools of water, with a microscope, or in ones own imagination. The small worlds of life that exist in abundance, but which we ignore in our self consuming, superficial "life styles." My mind often drifts, and I wonder about th