Tomb to Womb (A show dedicated to Jean Vanier)
1996

Far from being a novelty, the concept of Life as an ongoing combustion is an everyday renewal of one's energy to transform the decay of living into an abundance of fruitful existence. Living is a process of dying, incessant and perpetual. Life's triumph is the cycle of daily oxidation resolved into simpler life-giving constituents, sprouting new life from a putrid decomposition.

At the heart of its course, my work has adopted this quiet evolutionary truth. Observing nature's perpetual putrefaction and re-creation, meditating on its continual cycle of decay and growth, and listening to its dialogue in ebb and tide, my art takes action, like the fungi, to bring to light the li8fe dormant within.  My work's continuity is my belief's affirmation of our potential to find truth if we thirst for it' to attain light if we acknowledge our disillusion; and to retrieve life in the midst of our brokenness despite our fateful pursuit of wealth, power, and eliticism and despite our insistence on shuffling and confusing truths in poignant hypocrisy and intelligent rhetorics.

What does my exhibition offer to you?  Did you find it disturbing rather than entertaining? "Is this not what you expected to see?"  Is not the brightest light in my painting but a dull shadow when compared to the faintest ray of reality? Is our being "comfortable numb" a statement of our helplessness or our indifference to an inevitable, seemingly irreparable reality? Face your decay; accept your mortality; tame the death in you, therein emerges the scream for life. In the transient find the eternal and in the ephemeral search for unity through change of substance. Crises can be occasion or danger:  the choice is yours.  The mission of this show is complete when its life is transferred, when you leave with the bacteria of transforming the tomb to a womb reactivated in you.