Leonardo da Vinci urged us to look at clouds and stains on the walls and read into them faces, animals and battle-scenes. As Leonardo suggested... in these marks the artist can "discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action or strange faces and costumes and an endless variety of objects which you can could reduce to complete and well-drawn forms." MINDWORKS are drawing meditations, images rising from the unconscious mind. ...
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Leonardo da Vinci urged us to look at clouds and stains on the walls and read into them faces, animals and battle-scenes. As Leonardo suggested... in these marks the artist can "discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action or strange faces and costumes and an endless variety of objects which you can could reduce to complete and well-drawn forms." MINDWORKS are drawing meditations, images rising from the unconscious mind. Using abstract marks and random doodles in my sketchbook, new imagery and ideas come to mind. They are then enhanced with more drawing..."drawing-them-forth", so to speak. Associations occur and it is mostly a process of discovery and adventure...and advent. MINDWORKS are a process of discovery, art put to the service of self-realization for the artist as well as the viewer.
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