"Richard''s paintings are narratives of the symbolic depths of the psyche moving towards integration. They are stations on his personal way of self-understanding and self-transcendence. Yet they are also mandalic symbols that expose our hidden structure. It is this that explains their archetypal strength."
r i c h a r d s t o d a r tAffirmation — Confluences 2012 acrylic on paper 48" x 48"
"Because the entire universe and all things are, as such, pictures, both humans and things actualize themselves through pictures."
— Zen Master Dogen
Mary Magdalene"... a glimpse of lusciousness. The colors emerge, spring, from one another. "Confluence" is one my favorite words, and your new piece defines it for me (or, at least, the way I define it for myself) — masses that merge but don't intrude upon one another, forms that inform one another by their differences; nothing is lost nor found, because everything is purely itself-in-relationship, which drops to my knees in a bold exclamation of "Thus!""
Rusty C. Moe (click here)
