Parvardigar Prayer Series

I like combining visual structure with unplanned spontaneity, or energetic chaos with orderly balance, within multiple layers of vision and meaning. I look for the extraordinary (God, beauty, truth, love, compassion) in the ordinary. I try to maintain a playful attitude, a sense of humor, not to take myself or life too seriously. The intuitive process is important to me. I love mandalas from various cultures, especially sand paintings of the Tibetan Buddhist monks.

We call this "mixed media;" using photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, realism, abstraction etc. I try to break as many rules of art that I can in the process. The pieces range from 14 inches square to 48 inches square. I hope that my art has something to do with the process of being involved in a spiritual journey. Making art again has been wonderful, an almost unexpected joy.