My
long stay in Italy allowed me to experience beauty and aesthetics as an
inexhaustible treasure trove. It was somewhat like "aesthetic
meditation," which influenced and shaped my painterly style. Many of my
paintings call to mind textures and vibrations of peeling frescos crumbling
canvases or in this particular one, crumbling ancient paper. In the
process of painting I peruse my range of sensory perceptions, articulating them
in the composition via a spectrum of emotion-stimulating hues (various shades
of brown and gold), scratches, and prints that have become my distinct
language. this painting contain many sections intentionally unresolved. enabling one to sense the
passing time that changed the hues and textures, and complete with its personal
memories, conceptions, knowledge, senses the remain holes and the full picture.
