"How do you do that?"

This is the question I hear the most about my artwork. Each piece is hand drawn in pencil using rulers and a square template. Each piece is painted one color at a time. This series, a two year project, shows the progress of a painting from finished drawing, the addition of each color, to the finished painting when all squares are filled.

The concepts chaos, order and secret writing symbolically expressed in the compositions, colors and systems of my art, represent an essentialized world view that has long been the content of my oeuvre.

Chaos in these paintings symbolizes the material world where distinctions and judgments are made. Explosions and drifts of thousands of spectrally arranged squares in the artwork represent the presence of entropy, disorder and unpredictability that exist in every system in the physical world.

Order in the work, the interconnected harmonious patterns, suggest bliss realms one might experience in transcendental states of mystic unity sometimes called Nirvana, heaven or the infinite Divine.

The Secret Writing in this series is comprised of twenty unpronounceable letters, corresponding to the nameless presence existent in all sacred writing, the spirit imbedded in communication that cannot be reduced to concepts. Secret writing in every culture is like a window revealing inner concepts that are manifested in the material world.

The Process is a completed work of art revealing twenty steps of its own creation. Each panel bears one of the twenty letters of Secret Writing centered and bridging a field of order and a field of chaos, opening a visual dialogue between the two realms.

Click the image below to launch an animation of this process.