For the last four years I have been exploring a metaphorical approach to landscape. In the paintings you see here, I have been looking at the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm, as well as the effect of the passage of time on our interpretation of a place. The subject matter comes from traveling and responding to places I feel a connection to. This landscape, this earth, is our home. The forests are the cathedrals; the fields are the banquet halls; the clouds and sky are an ever changing ceiling and the rivers and streams are the paths that keep us all flowing. This place is so familiar to us, yet still so mysterious. There is as much to learn from the vastness of the starry sky as there is from a small stone picked up out of a stream, or a single leaf held in the hand. We live here, but we long for something more. Our souls hunger for the eternal. I believe that the eternal is here, right now in the present. If we pay attention we can catch glimpses of its fire everywhere, burning through the windows in the spaces between things.