Transition Time

Obama won and now it's transition time. After spending all fall working on Obama's campaign, at long last I'm getting back to my creative work. I'm focused for now on my painting. I've figured out that the "village series" is really something a little bigger in scope. These pieces, along with a few done earlier and a few yet to be painted, make up a set of paintings that might better be called "Human Encounters of the Transformative Kind," or something like that.

As often happens in my creative life, my mind had me heading in one direction - the villages - while in reality my heart was singing an unconscious song. As I see the paintings that have been produced and listen to the songs that they are singing, I realize this work isn't about "the villages." It's about how people and places around the world have made me who I am. Each painting in this global series is like an artifact in a museum; it encapsulates a story of how I was changed.

Stay tuned while I try to figure out what those changes were.