“Equlibrium”

All paintings seem (and are) still and stillness. In this series the symbols and forms are a direct result of that balance and presence of awareness, so the title “Equilibrium” alludes to the act of painting and the symbolic function of these specific artworks. The imagery, arising through consciousness and the body-mind continuum, works its way through the paint, onto the canvas, back to stillness. The paint is transformed from fluid in a tube to more solid on the canvas. Likewise the imagery moves from where it originates, from before color, light, form, and mind on to the subjective, then to the transitional and last (but not least) to existing as “real”. In other words, painting originates from what is before and after consciousness. The elements, while in a working stage, are an open and thin layer of motion with energy and consciousness. At completion, they become suspended in time. Amidst these paintings you have a lasting glimpse of an essence of equilibrium, not symmetry, not perfection, but a manifestation of the inherent equality found in the real. (Continued at bottom of page.)

“Formless Form 1” 16”x20” Acrylic on canvas (2023)

“Windoze” 18”x24” Acrylic on canvas (2012)

“Strolling Through Confustopia” 16”x20” Acrylic on clayboard (2016)

“Christ Consciousness 1” (Current) (midprocess) 16”x20” Acrylic on linen. NFS (Still in process)

“EQUILIBRIUM- the speed of light is stillness.” - 1/11/24 6:18 pm

As a visual and spatial aesthetic, symmetry seems closest to perfection itself. Simplicity reveals clarity. Image and painting are inseparable from the artist when creating, when immersed in the activity of painting. The heart/mind of the artist, his senses, brush, paint, and canvas all are held in an intimate synaptic connection between soul and reality.  This is how real art is made and distinguished, the essential difference between “art” made by a machine and true art created by an artist. Therefore, a painter, when painting, creates what is in the moment, what is in the mind, and what is authentic and real. A painter is painting and is painted, and is the activity of painting itself in that intimate moment of symbiosis, connecting what is truly inseparable: God, human, and nature. Painting is the world in which dream and reality are not two, not one, not zero. Painting and the substance of paint is real, is reality, is unimaginably real, and also is really imaginary. 

This series of paintings called “Equilibrium,” are not conceived, but “realized” through that balance, stillness and spontaneous presence of manifest consciousness. While conceptualization and thought occur in this process, they are cast aside, thrown into the vastness of the creative experience to reaffirm equilibrium. We are all already equilibrium itself, as we are manifest realties existing in reality itself. Existence as what is real is not possible without equilibrium as an intrinsic element of life. I suggest there is no need to prove or disprove this with words because it already has been painted. You have already been created, yet who are you? What has been painted that is already complete? Isn’t it indescribable? Equilibrium is manifest in everything we do, and symbolically these works represent that, analogous to how reality is all around and within us and we already are who we are.