Alef and Shin Painting

My watercolors and charcoals are the outgrowth of a meditative path intimately bound to the power of sound and the meditative vibration of the human voice, which I have walked and taught for the last 30 years. My art work is deeply connected to the human and as well as spiritual realms….and to the animal kingdom as well as the insect and plant world. Animals and insects have singular attributes and adaptations, which if we look deeply enough have the capacity to teach us about our own human natures as well as the nature of reality writ large. Ancient cultures knew of this connection between “man, women and the other.” They ascribed to animals mystical powers, to insects the power of transformation and to plants the power to heal as well as hurt. Look no further than Native American culture to find examples of each of these intertwined realities. It is this human connection “to all living things” that I am drawn to represent in my art, and which is particularly important in a time when our sense of total supremacy over our environment poses a growing challenge to our connection to “mother earth” and to ourselves and each other. My art works draw inspiration from Egyptian funerary art, from Greek mythology, from chaos and superstring theory, and from what Shakespeare described as “stranger things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophies” as well as from chance encounters with various beasts, and from my own imagination which is fed a great bounty because of the sound based healing work that I teach to those seeking joy, purpose and meaning.