Art Statement Since our great National Tragedy

"Out of the tap, from a source three hundred feet down , so close I feel the shudder in the earth , water spills over my hands over the scallions still bound in a bunch from the store. I had thought to make salad, each element cut to precision, tossed at random in the turning bowl. Now I lay the knife aside. I consider the scallions. I consider the invisible field. Emptiness is bound to bloom-the whole earth, a single flower’’ an American Buddhist M Gibson quoted in the painting ‘’House of belonging’’

In accordance with the Hispanic Tinwork of 1840-1940, I paint with oil on wood panels and tin as well as place the tin in and around the paintings. I decoupage the tin and other light metals as well as paint on glass. I use plaster and chicken wire to form and sculpt frames.

I am interested in exploring (with the above materials) the religious empowerment of a primitive era so enriched with imagination and innocence of spirit, that it seems an easy vehicle to heaven itself.

The paintings themselves have a ‘Goddess’ emphesis and a prayerful aim. They are an assembly of varying feminine images combining the domestic and the spiritual of everyday life. The psychology of these paintings are about’ killing the inward dragon’ and inspiring ‘hope’. Whether it is personal or global; war, rage, fear and revenge are the constant distractions to our true selves; which is the ‘God incarnate’. "Hope refuses to sleep" says Jesuit Priest Ladislaus Boros,S.J. "all longing implies a refusal of what is actually there." So we are living hope even unto ourselves.