I'm visiting Mom in Portland for a few days. When I return to the island, I'll post the five or six other paintings in this series. These are all either 18x20 or 20x24 (I think, I'm not too good at remembering sizes), and they're all around $150 plus shipping, or I'll trade if you like. As usual with images, the colors are more or less accurate, but you can expect some drift from reality just because of the usual tense interaction between light, technology, and my technical skills.

The business of artist statements is a bit overwhelming. On the one hand, you're supposed to explain yourself, and on the other hand, anything with that much ego and emotion in it is going to be embarassing unless said with just the right touch. Have you ever read an artist's statement that didn't make you squirm just a bit? Here's mine.

Electromagnetic energy spreads from mile-long radio waves to frantic little gamma rays. The visible light that we notice is just a little blip somewhere near the middle of that vast rainbow.

If we lived at the pace of rocks, we’d see the slow swings of eons, mountains rising and stars jostling for North Star position. If we lived at the level of diatoms we’d struggle with the karo syrup texture of water. If we lived at the level of my camera we’d see everything as a grid of little mutable pixels.

I can’t see that stuff either but sometimes I see where the edges are, the places where if things were slightly different, everything would shine.

What you can see is always more than what you do see. What I hope to show you is what's just on the other side of seeing.