Sometimes we find in life that everywhere we look, there is darkness. We drown in the weight of tragedy and darkness tightens it’s grip…we find it hard to breath…my life had become a suffocating black
 

But don’t despair there can be many levels of darkness and many levels of consciousness. Wasn’t it Lao-tsu who said, “Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source.  This source is called darkness….Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.”

Lao tsu was right. I had achieved a level of understanding that most who have not been to this place cannot comprehend. I had begun to heal, had to heal and art would be my cure.

While dreams have influenced some of my pieces I have to say that nature has been my mentor and life has been my medium.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

-- William, Faulkner.