This painting sits somewhere between my 'Dots & Little Things' series around 1997-2004 and my ‘Aqua Vitae’ paintings about wine from a molecular microscopic perspective to macroscopic scale. It was painted in 2015 and shows both these inspirations and aspirations.
I am unashamedly attracted to the notion of a series on ‘the life giving waters’ or ‘Aqua Vitae’. Birth. Growth. Spring. Bud. Bloom. Surge. Overflow and Overgrow. Life in abundance. Regeneration. Green Earth. Crisp Sunlight. Happiness. Love. Forgiveness. Life-giving. Enrichment. And Life Energy.
The 'Dots & Little Things' series was about exploring various forms of communication and where I really put print media under the microscope. Essentially it was the beginning of my fascination with all things microscopic and minuscule worlds. The paintings became these crazy clusters of rhythmic vibrating spots and dots somewhat like what I imagine are pulsating through space all the time with the transmitting of information through the 21st century ether like molecules and atoms made real. This series is as much about seeing as it is about the process of making as well as the infinite visual possibilities contained within imperceptible things.