A painter mingles with the world around him. As a participant he moves sleepwalker-like, in and through and with the forces of it’s reality, submitting to its experiences with the deep and terrifying forces of its inner spirit, of its magnitude, at once overpowering, sustaining and elevating - demanding and creating in him courage and faith. And then when he finds himself in the pit, in the arena - the spectator as well as the gladiator, before the frightening spectacle, at once terrifying and magnificent, how can he help the manifestation of his terror, wonder, aguish, stupefaction and suffering? And now these interpenetrate one with another. It is then that the great impact must be transposed into a created vision - ennobled, solemnized, ordered and impregnated by the qualities of his sensibilities into color related to color, to light, to line, and all of it directed toward some majestic form, a symphonic structure, a metaphoric transfiguration of it all