Experimental Living and Art-making
My life is an art form. I paint, but I also use the same envisioning skills
and attitudes in my Web design and programming. My teaching is art, too. Art-making
is an approach to life. The objects we shape may be the least important of our
creation.
In this sense, my work and my life are one. They are an experiment.
Belly Tales 7 & 6
oil on canvas
The subject of my experiment is the puzzle of contemporary life. None of us
have ever lived in the twenty-first century before; the situations we face are
largely new. The answers of 20 or 50 years ago may be insufficient today. By questioning
the authority of traditions and "knowledge" passed down to us and by
questioning ourselves, we will find a direction, or many directions, for this
moment.
An experimental approach to life is a timeless way of seeing and knowing. Its
gift is that we are more likely to glimpse the sacred, to experience awe and ecstasy.
Artist's Statement
Awe, Ecstasy, and the Sacred
An Experimental Approach to Living and Art-making
Contemporary and Postmodern
Artist as Missionary
Artist's Statement for the Figure Paintings
Artist's Statement for Landscape Paintings
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