Each painting is a new dive
into the cenote, down deep,
past the last flickers of
sunlight. What I bring back
into light is always a
surprise.

I have been delighting in
looseness, luminosity, rhythm,
color, and the untranslatable
calligraphic line.

Seeing a recent painting, a
friend remarked, “I see that
you added some shadows and
some modeling.”
“Hot damn!” I shouted, “I
thought I added some violet
and some yellow.”

Still, my paintings are
informed by divinities found
in the mythic moment, owing
especially to Hermes,
Dionysius, and Kybele.

I paint in acrylics, having
confused the turpentine and
the wine much too often with
oils.

I live retired and ecstatic
with my wife, Julia, in ALger
and in Dalmatia.
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