"Lucid's Garden" Print on Canvas 1.25in. (10x8, 20x16, 24x20, 30x24)

These are 300dpi prints of originals on 1.25" thick canvas, captured in sunlight and uploaded as raw unprocessed files.

"Lucid" meaning luminous, and light, this is a scene of dreams of childlike wonder. It is a depiction of the illuminating and explosive quality of when the imagination is woven as one with external reality.

Starting with abstract expressionism, I took a lot of time to watch this piece, and see deeply into the paint in the beginning stages to see what objects wanted to come out. I call this an "excavation" of the imagination as I try not to think what to paint, but only what is revealed to me in the paint that I then bring to fruition. It is a way for me to get to know my own mind.

Slowly, the scene revealed itself as one surreal subject after another came through - a dream garden of surreal properties where nothing is exclusively what it appears to be at first glance. Governed by animal spirits doubling as land, fire, and water, a quaint home in candy apple red rests cozily by a seaside stream. The current whirls magically into a train barreling downstream where the river will morph into a bubbly yellow corral reef ruled by a strangely animated fish. Beyond, is the home's backyard - a luscious green stretch of wildflowers leading to an old worn fence which divides the mystical property from a golden yellow beach where, given the light, it's hard to tell if it is high noon, dusk, or if the sun ever sets on this unreal dreamscape of jubilant chaos.