honey & lime

“These pieces are prime examples of a new painting type I developed a few years ago, which I call the Thrill Life. The overall intention behind it was to create a versatile, shareable form of art that I and eventually others could embrace and use as a statement of love for nature and earth, and the endless magic and interconnection therein, in the face of accelerating environmental crises. 

 

The Thrill Life, ideally, would become a viable and inspiring vehicle for imaginative and joyful expression, pushing boundaries of form and content, while equally raising a call to reconnecting and protective action toward the environment. I called it “Thrill Life” partly to riff on “Still Life,” nothing against the Still Life!, but also because it seemed like just the right term for what I was trying to do.

 

I actually worked out a precise definition in the form of an acrostic poem. I don’t think it’s quite perfect, I still make little edits now and again, but it’s more than adequate to convey the feeling and key ingredients.

 

A Thrill Life Is:

 

Thoroughly done using more than one medium;

Halfway a child's fanciful vision & half-

Realistic; implying motion and rendered

Intricately, yet still immediate; 

Life-abundant and embedded in an evident

Love of nature, with many

 

Layers, layers, layers! Innovative in design, with

Inference of interconnection among its subjects; &

Filled with an atmospheric sense of magic,

Exhilaration, and enigmatic symbolism”