The works in this exhibit are mostly painted in reverse - inverso. Meaning on the back, the other side.
The results of my actions bleed through the canvas (Summa paintings) or show their mirrored face on the acrylic glass (From the Nature of Things - Review).
To reverse my habitual actions of approaching the work sharpens my awareness and challenges my preconditioned mind.
It is my wish or hope that the (re)viewer of these works may be challenged in a similar way.

In both series, and maybe true for most of my art and that of others, it is up to the (re)viewer to recover their truth/content in the work or what we intend to put into it, to connect and understand it ,and to make it their own.
In order to imagine their own picture requires the viewers' active participation. In fact, it is an act of recovery of ones own truths/qualities of presence, ones own strengths and also ones concerns, questions, memories, compassions and convictions. Our intrinsic values and comprehension of beauty and peace.
The viewer is always the reviewer. And what each one of us may find is one of infinite truths.
Art reactivates these truths in us.


Reverse also means change of direction, change of view, change of mind, change of action. Considering the opposite of what we have learned to believe to be true. Art confronts us with what we didn’t think we knew.
To reverse our way shakes up our conditioned state and strongly suggests a rethinking of everything, of who we are, of how we think and act in this world. Rilke: "You must change your mind"
When Rilke wrote that a hundred years ago it was true. And I feel it is truer than ever, for me and you and everyone.