If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a strong or violent image, you may be expressing that part of yourself that's opening in order to let the new emerge.

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.