Lead Me On Still Waters,
oil on canvas 60" 48"
My Inner Landscape (The Sound of OM),
mixed medium on canvas 60" x 48"
Gathering Sparks,
oil on canvas 30"x 24"
ARTIST STATEMENT
There is a very old legend that tells that when God created light, it was stored in an enormous container. But
there was so much good light and the goodness was so intense, that the
container broke into millions of pieces which turned into millions of sparks.
This explains, according to the legend, why goodness is so fragmented and the
people of the world are so divided and there is so much suffering and war on
Earth.
The saga goes on saying that the duty of every conscience person is
to gather those sparks of goodness and
light and bond them back together into the great good. That is called in the
Kabala “repairing the world” one spark
at a time.
This was the goal of the Alchemists. While manipulating metals, each
person on his own, searching for the ultimate gold, the holly grail, was actually “collecting sparks to repair the
world”.
Growing very old, running out of time, but still here, I paint big
canvases. Like an alchemist I hope that my creations will help me find the sparks of light around me. I wish to
bring the sparks together into
meaningful messages from places beyond cognition. By painting I yearn
to contribute my diminutive, humble share to the “gathering of sparks”.
