Thanatos and Eros
2002

Life and Death. Love and Hate. Truth and Deception. Good and Evil. Beauty and Ugliness. Freedom and Bondage. Magnets of Peril and Preservation, Wheels of Creation and Destruction agitate in our Spirit and ferment in our Flesh. Constituents of Humankind. Spirit! what are your elements? Mold! what powers form you? What primary principles join you together? Flow of Being and Nothingness, Intertwined Spirit and Flesh, Vacuous Mind and Heart, Mother and Father Blood; am I not your expression?

My soul yearns. My body enshrouds. My heart thirsts. My mind wanders. What shadows are cast upon my light? What glow my darkness cannot extinguish? I oscillate between Thanatos and Eros. Everlasting Partners! Unified Couple! Alternating Counterparts! Intrinsic Giver and Receiver! Generators of Life and Death! I am blooming and corroding with your seeds, celebrating and mourning with your music, and transformed into light and ashes with your flames.

Thanatos and Eros, are you two or one? You have many faces and names! You laugh; alternating your appearance when we think we recognize your traits. You mock; fluctuating between ebb and tide, night and day, up and down, right and wrong. You wager; tossing us between Good and Evil where we affirm and deny, esteem and derogate, forgive and accuse, create and demolish. You quake and rest in us as we play and toil, rejoice and grieve, vibrate and shudder, hope and despair. You dwell in both Impotence and Power, thrive in Illusion and Truth, throb in Poverty and Fortune, engage Reason and Passion and undertake the Sacred and the Profane. As Thanatos is in Abundance so is Eros in Sterility.

My work is a meditation to comprehend the Unified Polarity and to confirm an affirming yes.  "Loving and Perishing", "Hope and Judgment", "Piety and Profligacy", "Heart and Reason", "Being and Nothingness", "Guilt and Forgiveness", "Sacred and Profane Love", "Death, Art and Life". titles of paintings, images of reality, stations along my path, records of my trials and observations. Questions persist and evolve with my steps. My answers are the interaction of the life giving and the life destructing forces inside of me. My destiny is the resolution of my will and my nature. I am the product of my history with the necessity of my present and the aspiration of my future.

We all partake in the Eternal Dance! We laugh and cry and heal and wound and fly and dive and love and kill and bless and curse and lift and throw and gain and loose and grow and rot. and are born to die and die to be born. eternally.

We all tremble with Love and Death.