Thinking about Moses or any of the prophets trying to drive today, with all they were seeing….

You see the patterns in the trees
The next day you don’t
You hear music in the leaves
The next day you are raking them….
That grief, keeps you looking uo
In case an angel passes through the leaves
Come tomorrow and rustles your sight back awake!

The prophets saw several dimensions occurring simultaneously inside and outside of time. Even Paul, was blinded to see and hear more from other planes. Art is about pulling back the veil enough to see more of what is really already always there. Like Elijah when he saw the great host, or those shepherds. Artist tend to live seeing everything at once. Like prayer for me, just lets you see more of what is always going on around us. Art is mystical in that practical way. But don’t make art and drive. Even when I’m praying and driving, I see too many angels, and keep swerving.
The theater has many layers beyond even upstage! And the lighting tech guys perhaps know this best. It’s not just what’s on the stage, it is all that is happenings around, above and below it, that makes the magic of life!
All my own paintings have animals, angels, trees, people, cities-all occurring at once. Often the animals see the angels better than the people do. But there is always one recurring character I paint. A man walking on a wire with special sunglasses on, who can see the angels and that the sky is made of music.