What He Achieves in His Heart is Made Known by His Hand
Of all my works to date, the Intervallum paintings represent (as Rilke put it), “the necessary, irrepressible, and, as nearly as possible, definitive utterance of this singularity.”
They are the outcome of many years of searching and wandering, forgetting and remembering…and forgetting again.
Though my earlier works were not unsatisfactory to me as works of art, with the Intervallum paintings, I have moved much closer to my inner nature and deepest abstract emotion. Perhaps in them heaven and earth are at last brought together.
As such, I feel a spiritual affinity and resonance with the visionary aspirations of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, and Sean Scully.
With them, I aim to articulate the inward dimensions of human life through the material medium of painting...which I do with full awareness that, in the contemporary art world, such work is (at least for the moment) wildly unfashionable.
"When painting, he leaves behind mere skills and measurements and his thoughts vanish into the creative night. The things brought out are not from the consciousness of the eye and ear, but from the Spiritual Court. What he achieves in his heart is made known by his hand."
From Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Poetry - Chang Chung-yuan, Harper, 1968.
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Intervallum
Latin Etymology
From inter ("between') + vallum ("a rampart').
Intervallum, n.
- The open space within the vallum of a camp or between palisades or ramparts.
- interval, distance
- interval of time, pause, intermission
- difference
- (music) interval