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My initial inspiration for a painting can come from almost anywhere, but the inspiration is not important. It is how a painting takes on its own emotional life from that inspiration that fascinates me as an artist. I never know where it will take me, but as long as I avoid trying to control the narrative, I am not disappointed. Very often, a painting reveals itself to be a premonition - so accurate that it can be unnerving. Other times it evolves into an array of cleverness that my conscious mind could never come up with on its own. Painting in this way allows me to dispel or alter the restrictions of defined time and space, much as is done in dreaming. I have always been in awe of the cleverness of dreams. I am a storyteller. AAD |