48" x 60"
Back reads:
"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the Towers.
48" x 48" I have come to realize the past is my own…that life exists exactly where I have driven it to be. The choices we make eventually fall into the pool of our lives. They ripple across the surface of our existence…holding the potential to create and the power to destroy. It’s easy to blame someone or something else when things go wrong…to exaggerate influence over decisions...to point to the dynamics for the choices we make. But it’s pointless, serving only to delay our understanding. Without resolution, we encounter a circle of constant re-education. The lesson is taught...again...and again. Time eventually sees it through...eroding the stubborn edges of a resistant subconscious like a stone smoothing and rounding as it crosses the Atlantic. Enlightenment and understanding can only come from a journey first within...and eventually without. It has taken me a very long time to understand that…and to learn the lessons of a life in resistance.
40"x30" - Oil on canvas
30" x 40"
