I've always wanted to paint abstraction. The way abstract art maps our interior space at the same time that it reveals material fact mysteriously fulfills a need to say everything at once.It has taken an age to see my way into it.I love the romantic flattened boldness of Jakuchu and Picasso. I imagine them also needing to continuously resolve the sensation of ,or at least the attempt at inner revelation with nameable subject matter, seeking the macro patterns in our microcosm lives.

I'm not sure how often I could say an artist has successfully sidestepped all physical references in their work. Our propensity for references in all human interaction may be inseparable from an artist's ability to realize something completely non-objective, in a vehicle of physical sensation.Would we know it even if we saw it?Isn't the question of taste and even understanding actually a question of personal references? Are we capable of completely disembodied thought?

I find symbology and narrative remains a strong theme in my work and that's fine with me.I'm certainly influenced by the flat colors of billboards, illustrated posters and computer screens as I am by the visual subtleties and sumptuousness of life on Galiano Island.Rural life is somewhat artistically isolated but I can live without an exoskeleton here, so it makes producing art easier.The transmissions between my outer and inner worlds are smoother,I am less fetered with influences and I can work from a more meditative state.

We are not just immersed in this universe; we are the universe.So it's best to give up our illusions of separateness because we've already lost!

Making art assists my consciousness to adapt positively to this realization.