Field 5: Chinese pear on paper Painting

In a world with A.I., I believe that paint and the human spirit can make the ordinary extraordinary in a meaningful way. I work in the still life painting tradition from brief, often precarious, arrangements of small, neutral or insignificant subject matter. I use observation, intuition, relationship, scale and metaphor to create a sense of both clarity and mystery and give form to my sensibility. I regard objects as concentrated space, process and phenomena and strive to create visual meditations that are layered, poetic and stop time. I draw on my interests outside art for inspiration - mainly music, yoga, meditation and Eastern thought, mainly Tao and Zen. I am particularly drawn to the increasing connections between Buddhist related thought and aspects of contemporary science.