I’ve been drawn to this area of the Mojave Desert since the early 1980’s ...
Apparently desolate - lacking ordinary routine,
this solitude appeals to me ...
allowing focus of a different scale,
on undistracted beauty ...
The perspective is unified,
and clearly distinguished ...
self, earth, and cosmos ...
The spirit of this place,
is ancient and palpable ...
Aquatic - primordial, burial grounds ...
bridging the prehistoric past with a distant future -
between here and beyond time ...
I’ve participated in Native American rituals of this region -
continued for millennia ...
experiences that reveal a profound reverence for this land -
earth as a living and breathing organism,
land with Soul ...
This landscape offers perspective,
with no shortage of inspiration -
where imagination runs free ...
Nature is the repository of answers to all questions ...
I came here to observe and learn -
if conditions prevailed,
to paint ...
My work takes cues from Nature -
especially, from what appears as a random flow of simultaneous events;
where information’s magnitude is paralleled only by nature’s variety ...
The desert simplifies by separating relevance -
the arbitrary from necessary;
with precise transitions,
of broad-stroked eloquence
and evolutionary expressionism ...
Sometimes,
the consequence of modernity
is more visible through nature ...
