Art is a finite experience of the infinite. By this I mean that although art employs finite materials in its creation, the best art can give viewers a cursory glimpse of a greater truth. I want my work to help clarify a viewer’s sense of himself or herself not as merely a social being but as a being with both a physical and a spiritual dimension (the two of which it is absolutely essential to integrate into a lucid whole). For this reason, I focus on images and motifs in my work that are fundamental, archetypal, and universal in human experience as opposed to socially determined. This type of potent image or motif is what I call, in the spirit of Joseph Campbell, a mythic image: one that embodies the epic and lyric nature of the timelessness of creation. The mythic underpins the material world; it is always hidden there just out of reach of a workaday consciousness but can easily be discerned by a calm, supple mind. The person who senses that mythic essence can experience the world as an integrated ground on which existence stands rather than as the typically chaotic, fragmented world of our daily lives. I want my work to reveal that mythic character and raise the viewer above the unfulfilling banality and disintegration of everyday reality.