“There is a battle within me as to what kind of art to make.\u00a0 It is always waged between the same two tendencies of realism and abstraction, and abstraction or non-objective art always prevails.\u00a0 It is as if I were helpless to choose anything else.\u00a0 I surrender to a kind of spirit world that wants to manifest itself through the materials I use, the paper, paint, printer’s ink or digital screen.<\/p>\n
“I sew etching together as if to make a cloth, and it is as if that cloth existed in an earlier time, with other images but with the same spirit.<\/p>\n
“When living creatures appear in my work, they appear as spirits,\u00a0with those creatures’ stillness, movement, or attitude, but\u00a0not their actual body forms.\u00a0 They seem to reveal themselves from the inside out.<\/p>\n
“When I make art,\u00a0what calls me is the metaphysical, the infinite, the awesome, the sublime.\u00a0 That is what I seek, and if I approach even only the outer perimeters, it is art that has led me there.”<\/p>\n
Shown here: “Blooming”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“There is a battle within me as to what kind of art to make.\u00a0 It is always waged between the same two tendencies of realism and abstraction, and abstraction or non-objective art always prevails.\u00a0 It is as if I were helpless to choose anything else.\u00a0 I surrender to a kind of spirit world that wants<\/p>\n