2D STATEMENT
The process of drawing and painting pulls my active judgmental mind through the emotions of
the day and shows me those emotions. Rapid fire following my mind until the emotions flush
themselves out as a cathartic expression and release. My intent is to quiet my mind and to be
in the flow. In order to feel the flow, I have to suspend my judgments and self-critique the
painting; if people will like it, about myself, what I’m feeling that day, what’s going on in my life
that day. It is cathartic to let go of the monkey mind and judgmental chatter in my brain. I
begin to experience flow as a liberation from thoughts and mind. A sense of creation takes
over and responds to the medium, the structure presenting itself in the work at that moment.
The place I’m in at the moment will also have a very strong effect on what I’m doing. Usually
there is no agenda other than to act on the first movement. One thing leads to the other and
the piece will develop on its own. Often, I will not realize what was going on emotionally until I
later look at the drawing. Ultimately though, some sort of structure or form presents itself that
I identify. Then I might say that there is a form which reveals itself at that point – landscape,
human form.