Because I’m an interior person, a lot of my life is spent in my head, so to speak. Throughout the day I ponder and reflect on a whole range of topics that are important to me. Since abstract art is all about expressing interior realties, of course it’s no surprise that when I started painting in 2012 I chose abstract rather than realistic expression.
Though making music, singing, making up songs, and writing, have been part of my life for decades, it was only after I went full tilt into making abstract art that I realized that I have been engaged in some form of creative expression since childhood.
Somewhere around 2015 I recognized that painting is something like travelling or exploring for me, in that making abstract art brings me a kind of exultation of spirit and excitement akin to what I imagine it feels like to summit Mt. Everest, sail around the world, adventure into a jungle, explore a desert… Recently I have taken this thought a step farther: Looking at each of my developed interests/passions as an individual mountain, I have essentially created my own metaphorical mountain range of creative endeavors, with paperfolding just being added to the range today!
Exploring, investigating, discovering (aka playing around with) new ways to create, to pursue truth and beauty, to uncover whole new realities, new possibilities, have become a wellspring of the most extraordinary inspiration in my daily life. Is it any wonder that at 70 I like to say that I feel like I’m just being born?
