Whenever there is an impending shift in my artwork, I feel lost, restless and unsteady.  I knew my art was ready to go off in a new direction involving the human figure, but what?   In this state of uncertainty, I had pondered and questioned for several weeks - what was to be the context, meaning or subject in my figurative paintings?  

One morning, with no thought at all of my artistic struggle, I was meditating in my favorite mental setting: I conjured up in my mind a golden sand beach on a Polynesian island. I dozed off and dreamed of a simple yoga pose of hands and feet aligned and firmly planted on the earth in a sandy tropical island setting.  I awoke with the clear understanding that my next body of work was to be paintings of yoga poses.  The body postures would be an unlimited mine of imagery from which I could metaphorically express a range of states of being.  As in yoga and as in life, the human experience can be balanced, awkward, convoluted, twisted, relaxed, tense, erect, supine, open, closed, etc. In my dream, the hands and feet are side by side, bespeaking their equality of usefulness and yearning for groundedness. Thus began a series of paintings of yoga poses, in which I hope viewers can experience states of being, something akin to meditation as in yoga practice.