drawing the inside of the brain:

defining the goal and purpose of art is of course unique to every artist. the parameters and demands of the world in which the artist practices can be frustrating to the final work, so it is seldom that an artists’ idea is clean and uncluttered. Sumi-e, the art of “painting-drawing”, is as close as I have found, for myself. Ink ground from raw materials; brushes built from scratch, using bamboo, natural hairs and fibers; paper reshaped (when possible) from plant fibers, pounded, flooded and reshaped: as much of the final product as can be hand-crafted as possible. this is not to say the result should be crude. rather, the result is truly a drawing of the mind, inside out.

nature is beautiful. it has never been my goal to re-represent the natural world. I’m not sure the point, other than to describe one’s skill, which seems to me arrogant or, at best, self-centered. rather, these are hopefully some ADDITION to the natural world, than a simple recreation of it. A drawing of the inside of the brain, as it were, after it has perceived this vast world of nature and in RESPONSE to what has been perceived.