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This series began in India in 1994. I was curious to know what might happen if the designing, judging artist was intentionally placed out of the way: what would happen if one didn't design a painting, or paint a design? During meditation, as the tide of my breath took me deeper and deeper into stillness and silence, the idea arose to work - somehow - with that rhythm of inspiration and exhalation which is so fundamental to my life:

"What if I painted the flow of my breath?"

A simple horizontal stroke was laid down, its length being determined by the amount of paint in the brush - or by the duration of the exhalation of my breath. On the inhalation I reloaded the brush. I was entranced by the patterns that emerged as I breathed my way across and down the surface.

The relationship between breath and spirit (inspiration) revealed itself.
Over time, the paintings evolved in their own way. Color became significant. Prayers and glyphs were encoded and embedded into the preparation of the textured ground itself. And over the ground, the breath-strokes expressed the focused prayer, releasing it over and over again into the quantum field: spirit unto spirit.

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