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Morning Dragon's Tail
oil on canvas
48" x 36"
2009
Morning Dragon Head
oil on panel
48" x 36"
2009
Flame
oil on canvas
48" x 18"
2009
Cloud Mountain
oil on canvas
48" x 54"
2009
Daylight Moon
oil on canvas
48" x 36"
2009
Signal Flare
oil on canvas
48" x 48"
2009
Blue Summer Sky
oil on canvas
48" x 36"
2009
Cumulus
oil on canvas
48" x 36"
2009
Cloudburst
oil on canvas
48" x 24
2009
Red Ribbons
oil on canvas
48" x 24
2009
Mediterranean
oil on canvas
48" x 60"
2009
Universe
oil on canvas
48" x 72"
2009
Night Dragon's Head
oil on canvas
48" x 36"
2009
Night Dragon's Tail
oil on canvas
48" x 36"
2009

I started my painting with a simple idea. I wanted to paint the changes of light during the course of a day, the motion of the clouds and the freedom of mind that the huge sky blue emptiness evokes. I felt like that thought needed a large canvas, so I made the piece 45 feet long, in 14 panels.

It took more than three years to complete the painting, and in the process of its making, it became more complex in intent. It came to be about the way our lives have both the monumentality of passing time, and the ephemerality of a passing cloud. And as the ocean and the sky began to mix inconographically, the painting came to be about how the vastness of the sky and the vastness of our interior lives are a single infinity, not two. It came to be about how the life force that moves through us all is both an intimate mystery and our entry into the universal dance.

The painting can be currently seen at the Great Impasta restaurant in downtown Urbana, but I am in the process of searching for a permanant home for it. Contact me if you are interested.