My work often patterns natural elements. It explores where the inner world of spirit and feeling and the outer landscape intersect. I begin with a wish to make connections between things I understand and things I don’t. I cover the surface of the paper or canvas with similar brushstrokes or draw hundreds of little circles. The meditative quality of this process sustains me. I relax into a groove and time vanishes. I want my paintings to be both beautiful and mysterious. Why hundreds of circles and lines of different blues with two spirals and words on top? I can’t say. But these paintings evoke a feeling of the sublime for me in times of joy or sorrow.