Space art, besides being just pure fun to create, is my way of taking the viewer on a journey to another place. The frame is like a window, the image, another world or reality.

I am often asked "where do you get your ideas?" I really don't know. Maybe it's the amount of time I have had to myself as a child that led to an over active imagination. I think it more likely that everybody has the power to use their own imaginations but few people really put that ability to use. In our modern society we get too involved in the right here and right now. Too caught up in worries and thoughts of job and money and all the other mundane day to day problems to really just look around at the beauty that surrounds us and just wonder the way children do. Imagination, like anything else, has to be practiced or it withers and dies. When ever I visit the big city I am amazed at how many people can be crowded in one place together and yet each one is a stranger to the other and each person in the crowd is so involved in their own thoughts with eyes too glazed over to even look up.

So where do I get my ideas? I look up and wonder. Sure I could look at a star and say, yea, big burning gas ball far far away so what. But to me just knowing something about that gas ball that countless people before me did not makes it even more fascinating. Yet there is still so much we don't know and that is also a source of fascination. Maybe there are worlds around that star. What might they look like? How long have they been there and might there be life on any of them? Is there anything to the notion of time and space being linked? The possibilities, or ideas, are endless. I have noticed that even people who do not look up will take time to look at art. With this in mind I will continue to make space art, (as well as the other topics I love to do,) in hopes that looking at a painting might stir the imagination in others.