“Art is the Mother of Religion", an Oomoto Shinto Sect motto.

"The truth of things is best read in refuse." Roland Barthes

Like the statement by Barthes, my attention gravitates to the worn, discarded, dirty and useless. There is profundity in the neglected and unnoticed.
I do not preconceive a work of art. I start perhaps with a thread of an idea, a color, or maybe a feeling. Once the painting is underway I try not to let my mind interfere too much, aiming to paint with an intuitively physical approach, letting process take me to a unknown place. With the paint, I scratch, incise, smooth over, cover and uncover. This process is like an excavation, a mining of subconscious space. Indecipherable writing is a stand-in for the unutterable. It represents the unheard voice of an interior landscape and is also a carrier of feeling.
Echoing the way I ruminate, the imagery comes and goes, remaining strong or fading away. It is a mysterious journey whereby I must trust my instincts. "Making" in this manner feels authentic to me: it is a reflection of the natural cycling of creation and destruction.