"Intoning Prayers"
is from a series of 10 large scale oil paintings which is loosely based
Herman Hesse's short story titled "Field Devils" which supposes that
Lucifer, needing help
with his infinite ambitions to create chaos and division in our world,
enlists Field Devils to carry
out his agenda. Intoning Prayers imagines two saints that have spent their lives in the desert searching for God.
The paintings are robust, energetic and full of suggestion yet do not literally illustrate the story.
There is no strict representation of the these states of being in the work, instead they are new
images drawn from those few short pages filled with the quest for reconciliation and personal
betterment. These images reside in a dream state, directing our attention to a fleeting moment or
a hint of something that can’t be seen and feels just out of reach, leaving as much room as possible
for the viewer’s imagination to be uplifted and inspired.
