Breath is a lifeline that connect us all, to each other and to a place. Breath brings us back to now. Breath brings a somatic attention which the mind doesn’t fully comprehend. Walking the southern stretch of Torrey Pines near my home, past Flat Rock and into the quieter wildness of the preserve, the windContinueContinue reading “Palimpsest of Place”
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Primal Aesthesis
Paintings and studies, 2023–2025 Between 2023 and late 2025, I undertook a sustained inquiry — through studies, paintings, and deepening academic work in depth psychology — into what I came to call the Primal Aesthesis series. The name itself points toward something pre-rational: aesthesis as raw sensory encounter, the body’s original knowing before language intervenes.ContinueContinue reading “Primal Aesthesis”
Artwork amidst COVID-19
A crisis like no other. As the world sequestered itself, it was a time to inward: Literally and figuratively. I found myself in Mexico for a scheduled writing retreat for my book in the works called, “The Beautiful Business.” This was right before the world shut down. China was just then being ravaged by theContinueContinue reading “Artwork amidst COVID-19”
“Song of Innocence” (after Velázquez)
“Song of Innocence” — 72”x60” oil on canvas, with mixed media In Diego Velázquez seminal painting (the most critiqued painting in all of art history) “Las Meninas,” there is a pose and gesture of the artist in a state of pause—a wondering tilt of the head which acts as an invitation from the artist toContinueContinue reading ““Song of Innocence” (after Velázquez)”
“Dance of Albion”
“Dance of Albion” – 72”x60” oil on canvas, with mixed media, 2019 “Man is All Imagination,” William Blake wrote, “God is Man & exists in us & we in him.” The “Dance of Albion” is a nod to Blake’s color print litho from 1794. “Albion” is Blake’s universal God-Man and carries an attitude of exaltationContinueContinue reading ““Dance of Albion””
/ Emergence / Series
“When I say artist I mean the one who is building things – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.” — Jackson Pollack / Emergence / is a series of paintings that explore the elastic elements of change, metamorphosis and emergence—how the human experience is constantly forming andContinueContinue reading “/ Emergence / Series”