“The desire to fly is not enough; one must also possess the wings.” — Gustave Flaubert

Collage too. On paper ©21c

Mixed Media and collage on paper 9" x12 "

“If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.” – Aldous Huxley

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells’s phrase, as Doors in the Wall. (Aldous Huxley)

My work sits at the intersection of acute physical awareness and trance-like sensory processing. Created under the influence of rhythmic sound and an altered state of consciousness, this piece translates internal friction—specifically the tension between physical pain and absolute present-mindedness—into visual form. The canvas serves not as a passive representation of an experience, but as the physical residue of a cathartic, hyper-present state of being. 😉