"Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible."
                                                 Paul Klee

     I am a painter trying to get people to forget what painting is,
       ..a musician seeking to make people forget what music is..

      "Great art occurs..only when a painter manages to invent
     forms capable of assuming, for those who have seen them,
     the function of myths."
                                            Jean Dubuffet
                                                                                                                                             

Mythos 

paintings in black and white

    I looked at the world      
and saw something that is,                                and something that isn't, 
             and I said to myself,                  
"There must be more than this." 

"The myth is the public dream and   the dream is the private myth."
Joseph Campbell

 I prefer black-and-white because,     as Colin McGinn says,
it is more "psychologically realistic."
and I want my paintings to be "as real as a dream is when one is dreaming."

             

Chroma


​paintings in color

 "If the artist believes that life is and will remain essentially mysterious, then what is seen on the surface will be of interest only if one can go through it into an experience of mystery itself."
Flannery O'Connor

"Similitude in dissimilitude, 
and dissimilitude in similitude."
​William Wordsworth

"To break down the distinctions between the I and the not-I."
Rainer Metzger on Vincent Van Gogh

Graphix

                                                                     
​            drawing and illustration

   Drawings "have a particular merit.
             They draw the viewer.                    
             into a world of wonder.
  Therein lies the enchanting effect 
             of a successful picture.
  It can be as exciting to own one as 
           it is to own a talking dog."
                    Jean Dubuffet
   
            When my drawings are
       successful they can startle a
   person, cause sudden laughter,
        or even elicit wonder or awe.
      I  call them "awful" drawings.