paintings early work
paintings • general abstract l grid l figurative l cubist l dot l free and easy wandering l four immortals l relaxation l spiritual teachers
Van Gogh, 24” x 30”, oil on canvas, © 1973
Man with Scarf, 24” x 30”, oil on canvas, © 1973
Red Clown, 36” x 48”, oil on canvas, © 1973
Freda, 24” x 30”, oil on canvas, © 1975
The Park Bench, 4’ x 6’, oil on canvas, © 1975
In 1973 when I began painting, I decided to inspect dualism to see how it operates as irrational thinking.
At the time I felt that if I approached my subject honestly and without preconceptions, that I might be able to discover the truth of existence. In effect, this series of paintings chronicles a dark slide into the core of dualism, which culminated with The Park Bench,
Thereafter, the focus of my quest was the transcendence of duality. Over the course of the painting experience this revealed itself as misguided striving with duality. Eventually I came to an appreciation of duality as an inescapable entwined foci with enlightenment through my introduction to Dogen’s Zen, and more recently the writings of Hee-Jin Kim on Dogen.