painting
Everywhere I look, I can see and find Wonder, Spirit and Beauty. I am amazed at the intricacy of design of a dragonfly's eye or a dust mite's arm. The variety and complexity in nature or even within any single component or species is just mind bending to me. The zig-zags on water are a cacophony of colours, shapes and lightning movements - and yet, they fall into a triumphant, symphonic, wildly ordered chaos, unattainable to the comprehending mind but attainable to my elemental being in a heartbeat. How CAN this chaos and infinite design detail be digested by this amazing organism that I am, in a single heartbeat? How do we humans have the ability to do this? And HOW did all that beauty get there in the first place? I do know that we are integrally connected to every scrap of it and intimately a part of it. I try to attain mental comprehension of all that I see and am amazed by. In my artwork, if I look hard enough and work long enough to record the intricacy of what I find, my mind too can attain a little understanding of what my heart knows readily all along: that this wildly ordered chaos, this unimaginable variety and complexity, this endlessness of design - this wonderful, beautiful, and radical spirit, this that I am looking at, what I am awed by, is God himself, looking me straight in the eye. When I see this Wonder, Spirit and Beauty, I feel connection to my very Maker. My Joy is to reveal this electric experience. I must reveal Him. This is what calls me to be an artist.