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In my paintings I always attempt to capture something extraordinary and
unique in the common objects, try to express my sense of the mystery of
being in the world. I create, hoping that the viewers will be able to
share my fascination. These landscapes and compositions are responses
to experiential moments of non-duality often occuring for me while outdoors
in natural surroundings.
The images serve as quiet and thoughtful visions assisting the human
compulsion to make meaning through making pictures and looking at pictures,
too.
Often the sensation of momentarily losing a sense of "myself" occurs
in travels through open spaces. Being in mountains and open fields often
suggest to me that some fundamental truth underlies everything. Standing
before trees I see visceral icons proclaiming a union of earth and sky.
Slow movement constantly existent in the Nature, especially stream of
water, makes me feel the course of time, flow of Life.
My landscape paintings are composed from memory and on-site drawings
or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential
visual elements when organizing a new composition. For a painting to be
complete it must call to mind my sense of no divison between form and
emptiness, Earth and Sky, self and other.
Doing my pictures I focus on painting illusionary spaces using distance,
atmosphere, light, and textures.
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