Art exists to embody and bear witness to those things human language cannot fully convey. I see art as the documentation of an ongoing process rather than a fixed event. My paintings have layers of meanings, some of which are not fully know to me. I do not paint to polemicize, to teach or promote a particular point of view. I do not wish to nail down the universe, but to reflect it. One can talk endlessly about the nuts and bolts of technique. This can be useful and dangerous. One can get wrapped up in the artist as a persona, tragic or otherwise, and this is sometimes interesting. But to get close to the heart of art, is to try to talk about the qualities of soul and the cultivation of human sensitivity. If art must have an aim or philosophy, surely this is it.

Series II, #5 painted in 1976, seems to deal with contrast both in process and visual content. It combines the spontaneous and accidental with the measured and circumscribed, the focused with the amorphous, and the intellectual with the emotional. Veils of this acrylic paint were brushed on and, after a bit, wiped off.