Cosmic Launch Painting

My awareness of the global climate crisis has contributed to the paintings I have created for my new exhibit, “Cosmic Monologues.” Like human-beings, the cosmos goes through many deaths and re-births. The thought of the void can terrify us. Yet when our heart is empty from tragedy or loss, that is the time when we may get a glimpse of one of the unexpected luminosities of reality, such as we see in these paintings. Empty space is not ever truly vacant, nor can our lives ever truly be blank or meaningless. Virtual particles move in and out of existence constantly, just as we do. Going deeper into my subconscious and the world of dreams, I reveal fantasies from my imagination, creating archetypal images, such as winged figures, horses and other animals, as well as stars, planets and black holes. Swatches of fabric, lace, gold leaf and lichen from oak trees are some of the elements that are included in the paintings.