In Search of Stillness, Oil 24" x 25" $2400

The painting In Search of Stillness reduces the artistic outer beauty of descriptive details to a minimum while preserving the atmospheric elements. Here I eliminate all distractions to a purity of form. I have discovered that reducing the artistic (tasteful outer beauty) to an absolute minimum increases its transcendent quality. Stillness is an ever-increasing process of distillation and condensation. The simplicity of the form assimilates the qualities of a symbol. Its basic structure relies on the geometry of the triangle. There is an eternal quality to the triangle, philosophers have debated about whether it is intuited, an ideal truth independent of the subjective. There is a pure sensual physicality to the paint. The grays bend and shift, rise and fall as a musician blends sound, into impressions beyond words and meaning. The unfolding of these elements requires time and mental stillness. According to Tuchman in The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, -The silent painting, contemplated in more than a casual way has a numinous effect simply by reason of its radical concreteness, its unconditional immediacy. It communicates a certain irreducible non-discursive experience-