I am focusing my creative and spiritual energies on connecting people to the mysteries of creation and communion with all living things use many mediums - paint, ditial images and a few carefully chosen words.
The Mystery of Beauty Is this painting beautiful? Is beauty simply a subjective opinion based on cultural norms or is it something deeper? This post begins a series that will explore the importance of beauty in the human experience, mystery of what it is and why it opens the door to the deeper questions of life itself. The recent “Literati” inspired paintings and poetry has opened this door for me and I hope this path will lead to my next book. Frank Wilczek in his tome, A
The shadows caught my attention on an early Spring sunrise on walk with Rocko into a high meadow with South Mountain in the distance. I had to paint it as part of my Literati inspired series combining both image and a poem: South Mountain, Spring Dawn. Fingers of light Consume Winters’ gloom and Swallow shadows. Warm my heart Announce a new Season, a new Day A new born Hope. The painting is 24x24x2 Acrylic on Wood Panel and is on display at Cabra Coffee, Cedar Crest NM. All
Chimney Rock at Ghost Ranch is just one of many stone spires in New Mexico. When you add the soft orange glow of Sunset, it’s hard to not be inspired. Humans seem hardwired to experience pleasure when they encounter something so beautiful. Frank Wilczek wrote a 400 page book as an attempt to answer a single question, “Is the world a work of art?” In a sense, is all of creation from the Galaxies to atoms, are something we as conscious human beings experience as beautiful, a
Georgia O’Keeffe once (or more times) said if she painted enough, God said He would give it to her… here are my thoughts: Georgia’s Gift Was Georgia O’Keeffe given Perdernal Cerro by God because She painted it enough times? No. God gave her a greater gift, Sharing her Majesty, Mystery and Beauty. Beauty is a truth That belongs to no one, But also, to everyone.
