I AM THE MOUNTAIN

Walking among certain mountains, I begin to remember where I came from, why I am here, what I can still do. Thoughts, breaths, emotions and visions become purified and unified into a Great Vision and coming down the mountain I am never the same. Some mountains, I see just a glimpse, when the clouds part and I am shooting by, and some I have looked upon for days, until their shapes are painted in my soul. When I paint, tiny in the midst of the threshold, somehow, I am the mountain. The paintings displayed are from direct seeing, drawing, or memories from Huangshan, Pilatus, Schreckhorn, Zermatt in Switzerland, Vesuvius in Italy, The Lost Coast in California, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico. The book corresponds with 2 exhibitions of the same title at the Chaslager in Stans and Galerie Winkler in Zug, Switzerland.