One thing becomes another.

All 40 paintings are hung! Please stop in to the opening reception for my solo exhibit, Transmutations, this Thursday, January 9, 7-9pm at the Village Theater in Canton.

Each one has a title, a poem, an idea behind it. Each one was made over the course of about a year. Slowly, these paintings became a set, and the best way to describe them was Transmutations.  

One thing becomes another. This is the story of many things in nature: the river, the leaf, the rock, the star, the butterfly, the tree… It is also the story of people and ideas. Every day—every moment—changes us. Sometimes it is as dramatic as the metamorphosis that we see in nature, sometimes it is only when we stop to look back that we realize how much we have changed, and what made it happen. To me, this is what these paintings represent: the blank piece of paper, putting down marks to see what they can become, to add words and see what feeling emerges from that, and finally to share them with others and have it become yet another thing.

This is the best part—I hope you can be there.