"Flamenco Guitar Player with Bird" Painting

"Flamenco Guitar Player with Bird" is what I think of as a neo-cubist painting. It reflects the profound, ongoing influence of Picasso upon my work. It also reflects a specific personal artistic interest in cubism as a futuristic mode of representing reality that I believe Picasso and Braque barely began to explore. The first phase of the development of cubism was known as analytical cubism. It was not so much of an attempt to distort perspective as it was a deepening exploration of perspective from the vantage point of a hypothetical fourth dimension which revealed views of three dimensional reality invisible from only three dimensions. The fourth dimension was at that time more generally considered the domain of science, mathematics and philosophy. The avant grade painters of early 20th century Europe however were very much up to speed with the intelligentsia and were keenly interested in the idea of four dimensional reality and its implications for painting. Analytical cubism was an early attempt to begin to depict the idea of four dimensions on a two dimensional painting surface. The relevance of the fourth dimension extends far beyond the domains of twentieth century science and art. It has little understood, profound implications for our understanding of the nature of human consciousness. As an artist and a theorist in the field of contemporary metapsychology (see bio) my longstanding interest in the art form of early cubism is central to my understanding of the relationship between the fourth dimension and human psychology. The individual and collective expansion of consciousness that is currently underway on our planet is a function of human perception expanding from a three dimensional perspective of reality to a four dimensional one. As this process picks up speed over the coming century art will increasingly reflect this shift in our collective perception.