My Muses
“When a moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is easy to miss it.”
— Boris Pasternak
My inspiration flows intuitively from the stuff of life, revealing the remarkable within the ordinary.
Searching to understand myself as a spiritual being,
Longing to see the entire world before I die,
Thirsting to understand my ceaseless nighttime dreams,
Learning deeply from words of poets and thinkers—
This all intertwines, fueling the images I create.
Dreams
For over 20 years, I have been recording my nighttime dreams. Incredibly disturbing as well as joyfully surreal, they hound me relentlessly until I give them my full attention. Not only do these dream images enrich my life, but they are an impetus for my creative work.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the door sill
Where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
— Rumi
Travel
“… we need to travel. If we don't offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”
For me, the sights, sounds, tastes, aromas, and rich, vibrant colors –washed by layers of time, surrounded by cultural textures, unfamiliar patterns, the sacred & the mundane hand in hand—feed who I am.
