"Going out into the world is my starting point -- being present, alert -- opening my eyes, listening, letting in spirit and energy.

With the mind receptive, the subject reveals itself, declares itself. This is a non-willed process, as if I ask permission or perhaps volunteer to receive the subject.

Focusing, I draw precisely the form I see without involving myself as editor or stylist.

In the studio, I transcribe the original forms into paintings. These Sightings and Fragments describe pieces of an unknown whole.

During an artist's residency in the Canadian Rocky Mountains of Alberta, I saw the forms as portraits. I rendered these, the Alberta Fragments, with pigment I gathered in the mountains, crushed, and mixed with medium."