I was asked about my art making this week. Of course, art is healing, learning to empathize and listen well, and a way to build community! But they asked me about my own art, and how I saw it:

I”m a Neo-romantic with a gothic touch. I still have hope but not false optimist or sentimentality.
I like setting up vignettes, where something recently and long ago happened. Usually little windows into time forwards and backwards.
I enjoy making mood or tone, and sharing it with others. Then always have some sort of opening so people can see several other options or dimensions to the story, and theirs.
In that way, my art is hopeful. But hopefully not sentimental, and certainly not propaganda for some idea.
More a kid like exploration of life as I see it—multi-dimensional and many times at once.
So montage and collage are usually where I find myself in my art.
I don’t focus on decay, but I’m aware of it, and try to make others aware that our bodies and the painting is in passing and becoming simultaneously.
We are being reborn and we are dying at once. Most of my art has that awareness.
Train windows and the sky, fish and musical notes are recurring motifs.
Usually set in a dream like place, but that is landing into everyday life.
I see life as having many dimensions interacting and occurring at once!
Angels eat breakfast with us, whether we see them or not!
But also taking out the trash or cleaning the toilet is a prayer! Art just reminds you of that.
Prayer for me is so similar to making art. They coth take you in between worlds to look in both or all directions at once.
When I pray I see images and hear words. It takes me some time to interpret them. But in that type of moment, I’m not concerned with interpretation, only Presence.
And considering this Kindness from which we come being so active in every detail of daily life!
That always inspires wonder in me.
And gratitude.
So I paint and pray to be thankful.
And I share that window into thanks with others through art.
The wonder of just being here and there at once! And dearly loved as we are.
I like Jesus because He is very much with us, and very much in the other dimensions at once!
Art is just practicing being loved in many dimensions at once!