Pilgrim's Progress Series 2014-Present

A pilgrimage is a journey or search for moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance for a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes, at least for me, can also be a metaphorical journey. The use of religious themes and spiritual imagery has provided a major source of inspiration for my artwork throughout my career, and travel has been central to this investigation. The importance of this activity has increased in recent years as my work has become more focused on my search for truth as it relates to the concept of religious pilgrimage, both real and metaphorical. Through the years I have made trips to Egypt, Rome, Israel, China and the Canary Islands and the immersion of these foreign cultures have provided me interesting content for my work and a rich source of visual vocabulary. While my work does not attempt to literally imitate forms of other cultures, nor does it represent objects to be used for liturgical purposes, the imagery and cultural practices I gather from these travel experiences gets synthesized through my personal post-modern aesthetic and then culminates into a body of work that is concerned with a personal spiritual pilgrimage within the mystery and paradox of our secular world.