Inner Vision-Outer Spaces:
As a child I would love to close my eyes, focus my attention on my breath and wait for the colors and images to appear from the darkness. It felt magical to watch a movie of colored light beams of energy moving inside of me. Over the years, these experiences became a sacred inner space guiding my creative practice. By allowing my awareness to expand out into what I perceived was a Universal consciousness, I could become one with the elements and travel in my mind anywhere and experience anything I wanted.
The emerging challenge was, how do I translate these inner images to be representative of these memories? When I began experimenting with encaustic painting, it became clear that this was the perfect medium. The process of applying and fusing each application of hot wax, pigment and varnish to the underlying layer spoke to volumes to me. This versatile medium allowed the essence of my creativity to flow onto a surface, interact in a dance like state that through heat created form in space.
I don’t think that I’m alone in these experiences. I hope you are inspired and moved by what I first perceived as inner light, an energy flow of gases and dust from the void that gave birth to imagined images of deep space, nebulas, stars and galaxies in my “Universe” series in addition to the exploration of form, elemental interaction and aerial viewpoints of the “Earth-Water” and “Surface” series presented before you.