“When I seek, I look, look, look….”
Benoit Mandelbrot

"Soul is the master,
and matter its natural subject."
Plato

"The Good Earth"

from the collection of Rene & Paul

"Life passes into pages if it passes into anything. I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist."- James Salter

Nick Paumgarten says about Salter- "You come away from his work wondering if you should have lived more, even if living more, in his work, often leads to ruin."

"Marina"

22x16"

"I wanted everything I learned to be an opening into the unknown, whereas Gerry's knowledge added up to a closed circle, bringing him safely back to where he began, confirming him."
-Tessa Hadley from her short story Valentine

“The role of the art is to accept that things break down. That’s the only way to get something new to emerge.” Per Kirkeby

"The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself."

Sherwood Anderson