I’ve been doing grid drawings and paintings off and on for fifteen years now, although as far back as thirty years ago an artist told me he could always see the grid in my work. Frequently the grids lay the foundation for a multi-layered search in pursuit of my favorite icons, chairs, roses, birdcages, sacred texts, a parade of animals, poetry. Increasingly the imagery has fallen away and the field of squares remains.
From what I’ve studied and learned over the years, the square represents solidity, the earth, order and balance in the universe. It is a shape that satisfies, one of the archetypal shapes that peoples of all cultures seem to recognize, work with and develop in myriad ways.
I have come to think of the work as ”Prayers for the Earth”. Drawing a grid on the canvas or paper, I methodically fill in or outline each square. Through this meditative process, the individual square becomes one leaf on the birch tree, or one hummingbird hovering in the garden, one wave in the ocean, one rock on the path. Together the squares form a union, a prayer for Mother Earth and for all her vast complexities simplified into one moment, one painting.
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