My new paintings have a direct relationship to my earlier paintings wherein I painted references to the land and sky through a subdued grid infused with dots filling the field of the canvas ‒ open fields suffused with color and light. I worked on these large scale paintings ‒ some up to twelve feet ‒ from 1972 to 1979.

In the new series, I have enlarged the dots of color to become abstract orbs often breaking down or shedding their structure. I am interested in the work suggesting larger territories. My paintings utilizing the application of gold leaf expand the work through luminosity and reflection. In some works the collaged geometric shapes ‒ oval, triangle, etc. ‒ become the dot of light or energy and indicator of intervention into other spatial worlds. I often employ the “stack” as a structural device; this measuring up allows an interplay between order and randomness. Also choosing the brilliance of white or off-white as a field allows me a neutral area for color to work its magic. Working the surface ‒ paint, sand, grind, add, and subtract ‒ I define and refine the soul of the idea, dream, and story line that I am searching for ‒ the elusive gestalt.