October 16, 2013   

I wanted a title for the show that would work for large and small paintings, figurative, landscape and abstract. Someone once described me as a very liminal person. I didn't know what liminal meant at the time, so I took it as a compliment. Thinking about a title for the show, the concept of liminality came back to me, and seemed to be a good over-arching theme. Liminality is about the threshold experience in ritual, when one is passing from one realm to another. For me, painting is the ritual and it provides the framework for liminal experiences. That can work literally in the visual realm as I push the painting from one state to another. The passage in the painting from state to state creates opportunities for the artist. Interesting edges and creases appear. Emergence becomes a dominant quality. Liminality, or threshold experiences, also work within the artist. Sometimes that inner experience is easier to recognize when I am reemerging into the world, suddenly very tired after wrestling with the angels.