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intellectually and in terms of my method. It drives how I engage limits. As an abstract artist I create happy accidents with Divine
with materials in the search for what is luminous to the eye and Discontent. I have always felt art is daring, transparent and
transcendent in meaning to the heart. My art is intended to should jolt us into consciousness.
point to what is greater than the conventional and logic-based

point-of-view. I think about life as an art. I ask what would life The under-painting is central to how this orientation shows up
be like without Art? in the final works. In search for the luminous and transcendental,
the under-painting is an investigative yet carefully orchestrated

There would be noise and tones…but no music. There would evolution of intentional layering in which I am immersed in
be letters and words but no stories or novels. There would a process of moving with a rich flow of contemplative and
be pictures but no movies. There would be colors, dots and clairvoyant thought. In this movement, I press-in on the mark-
lines but no drawing. There would be shapes and materials. making with brush and paint, then stand apart from it, then
There would be no way to express human ideas, emotions, press-in again and so on until the idea which wants to be

imagination, memories or thoughts. We wouldn’t know what the noticed shows itself in relationship with my intention for an
past looked like. Whatever is difficult to find in life…is possible image. This process is deeply personal. It is intended to bridge to
in ART. I love stretching my mind and playing to the edge of others and invite them to participate in the images I make, such

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