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NIGHT AND DAY 2015

These large scale works were inspired by The Canonical Hours Project I completed in 2015. They try to capture a feeling at four times of the day:

1. Prime (6AM): Waking up
2. Sext (12PM): Daytime
3. Compline (9PM): Falling Asleep
4. Matins (12AM): Dreamtime

6AM: WAKING UP

This work was inspired by lines from
a poem by Rumi:

“Both light and shadow are
the dance of love...”

12PM: DAYTIME STORM

Isn’t it sometimes hard
to tell the difference
between the time
the storm is about to hit and
the time right after
it has passed?

9PM: FALLING
ASLEEP

Feeling
the weight of gravity
and a sense
of being lifted
at the same time

MIDNIGHT: DREAMTIME

There is so much
mystery in the night.
A painting about the
colors and shapes
of the night is
even a mystery to me --
truly like a dream.

A BEAUTIFUL
DARKNESS

In a lightness,
a connection,
a curiosity,
a passion
that inspires a
creative, spiritual life

A GIVING SUN

The clarity and light
of a giving sun at dawn
One that brings life to all
sustains our survival
Nourishes the earth
and world we know

NIGHT & DAY
POEMS

These are paper works I made inspired by poems I wrote while working on this series.

PAPER
STUDIES

These are works on paper that were studies for the ‘Waking Up’ and ‘Daytime’ paintings of this series.