SEÑORES DE LA LUZ

(Clandestine Personages Hiding in the Light, Colors and Shadows of the Dark)

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The spirits come on sunny mornings to a salon made from commercialy available crinkled up soft plastic URSU9  water bottles,  where they celebrate the drama and beauty of their beings, yearning to be recognized and appreciated. They love that I know they exist and relish the opportunities to reveal themselves by participating in my exploration. If you give them a chance and listen carefully, they will convey emotion, personality and tell you about color and light.

​They are recognizable to me because of the strong influences imbued in me by Mexican surrealist Alejandro Colunga and the late Houston artist's artist, Bob Bilyeu Camblin, whom along with Andre Masson, Tamayo, Siqueiros, Rivera, Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Chagall, de Kooning, Paul Jenkins, Klein, Kline, Rothko, Turrell, Kapoor, Larry Bell, Ken Price, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Earl Staley, Terry Allen, Jesse Lott, Jr., to name a few, who taught and gave me the eye to SEE and recognize them in the myriad of colors of the moment...  Many also very much remind me of the dance masks that I encountered in my 11 year project to extract the essence of the Mexican indigenous festival as it existed in the final  decade of the millennium.