When I paint, I aspire to have everything relate to everything else in a luminous energetic web. I feel shapes and colors connecting with other shapes and marks and colors. My goal is to create a light and atmosphere filled space in which everything corresponds to everything else through mysterious rhythmic connections. Sometimes, changing one thing can collapse or connect the entire structure - that is part of the thrill.
I've begun to play with another energetic web - the World Wide Web. That play has brought an amazing amount of joy and opportunity into my life and made me focus on the sweetness and power of connecting.
Friday night I attended two openings and both made me think about the attention the artists had paid to connecting and making things happen. They are shown with their work in the above photos. On the left is Margaret Bobb at Calvary Church in Longmont, CO and on the right is Mike Brouse
mikebrouse.com at St John’s in Boulder. As I’ve watched them both over the past few years, I have been impressed by how they have attended to connections. They seem to know that being “discovered” is not a random act of the Universe.
