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I am not a realist. Nor am I an impressionist, a pointillist, a surrealist, a minimalist, or an abstract expressionist. Yet I assert that my work, at its best, functions within all of these disparate categories.
These are not paintings of objects. They are not souvenirs of places, and they do not tell stories. They do present a recognizible image, and an illusion of depth. The image consists of the sea, the horizon, and the sky. This is not the real, physical ocean, or atmosphere - it's a metaphor. I propose that, as such, it can be universal.
The ocean as life: the sea in our blood, the birth of life. The rocking of the waves, the cradle of life. The ocean is the mother of all living things.
The ocean as life’s journey: adventure, danger, the crossing of the great water. The desire to go beyond, to leave the old world behind and discover something new and exotic; the call of the sea.
The eroticism of the ocean: it can be wild, pounding, violent and terrifying, or warm, bouyant, gentle in its swaying and lapping motions; the calm after the storm.
The ocean as death: fathomless, unknown, dark, infinite, into which all rivers, however long their windings, must flow, losing their identities as they merge with that which was their true source.
The ocean is ever-changing. Observe it closely, its forms and colors are in constant flux, it is never still, you cannot exhaust its infinite variety. And yet, it is always and profoundly the same; the ocean as the passage of time and the persistence of memory.
Look at the paintings, not just a glance, spend some time at it. You are the figure that inhabits this eternal place. Notice how you feel. My hope in creating them was to create a meditative ambience, a profound and lucid calm. They are intended as a tonic for the human spirit.
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