“I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statementas well or better than the whole would.”~Georgia O’Keeffe 

In this spirit I believe that art is… 

…an intrinsic affinity to be apprehended only in crossing the space between the artist, the work, and the observant. …an ontological orientation that is open to a new understanding of reality where alternative metaphysical perceptions can emerge in an association beyond words. 

…a celebration of liminality…making possible the deconstructing of the uninteresting constructions of common sense. “No explanatory hypothesis is clearer than the act whereby we take up this unfinished world in an effort to complete and conceive it.”~Maurice Merleau Ponty 

…a space when/where there is no separation of meaning from the act in which the doing (art) itself is the mode of being relevant and it constitutes a manner of being articulate. 

…being made to stand forth…to embrace the truths of our experiential participation with things and to attempt to understand the underlying patterns and organization of the existential world. 

…not a description of the world, rather, a unification of some of its aspects in a new meaningful whole. …a language of interior humanity…a slippage from our normal sense of measured time…a mode of perception…a reflection upon what does not appear and yet is the very condition for the appearance. 

…beyond the accidental limits of individual perception where consciousness does not anticipate itself. 

“The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.”~Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica