My work is intended to create an emotional and interpretive response in the viewer’s mind. Images are ambiguous and hence create different responses in each viewer. I think we work together, artist and viewer to create a unique experience. I have heard people having intense discussions over my paintings each convinced that their viewpoint is correct. This is rewarding to me.

Rainbows swim, colors fly and motion stretches and grow and tease before the viewers eyes. The viewer is pulled in to confront their own psychological interpretation. Symmetry and breaking symmetry, is used in my painting to create tension by providing simultaneous reinterpretation of motifs.

Fractals, fractional dimensions, play an important part in my paintings and feature both as mathematical entities and as fractals in nature. drying mud and tafoni rock provide interesting variations to trees and ferns.

Life Story

This is a painting diary of my life years. The series describes the emotions and challenges and eventual successes growing up in S Korea in the turmoil after the Korean war and born with a handicap. I am torn between describing the Life Paintings and allowing viewers to make their own interpretation. I prefer the viewer to interpret then read my story. However, I do provide an explanation since that is the motivation behind the paintings and they exist in the context of a time and place in my life.

Abstract Mind

The human mind is superb at interpreting ambiguous patterns and shapes, the mind has an innate ability to find meaning in any shape. The Abstract Mind series combines the mind’s ability to find meaning with abstract painting. Many paintings look like colorful Rorschach images but that is superficial based on symmetry. My paintings have subtle variations in shape color and composition, some are not symmetrical at all. The designs are intended to pull the viewer into sometimes comfortable places and sometimes uncomfortable, you decide.

While Sailing

We cruised in our sail boat, Notre Voyage, for 3 years from New York City to the Caribbean. While sailing I created a series of paintings inspired by sailing in the ocean.

Letting the boat movement guide my hand greatly facilitated the embodiment of fractals into my paintings. Wind blows on the water and creates little waves that combine fractal like into bigger waves, The waves move the boat but the weight of the boat damps out the random motion and creates wonderful fractal lines.

Human Touch

Fractals are a mathematical construct that divides space into a fractional dimension. All of nature can be described as fractal. The human body is fractal, the blood vessels, lung airways, brain cells, all are fractal patterns.

These paintings juxtapose the human body with its hidden fractals with nature’s external fractals, trees, rivers, soap bubbles, rocks, etc.