Having spent my recent years becoming a digital artist, I was inspired to return to my roots in drawing and painting after seeing the marble mountains above Cararra, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and La Primavera in Florence’s Uffizi, Michelangelo’s Captives and the David, as well as the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
After returning to California from Italy, I decided to create an online journal which would continue my 30 year practice of remembering and recording my dreams, while also serving as a conduit or bridge over which I might pass as I reawaken my relationship with my traditional training. In my attempt to convey the feeling of crossing over a kind of twilight threshold between the worlds, I recalled my earliest studio days, when I made a silk screen print entitled “Dream Departure.” Here is a photo of that print:
