We derive aesthetic pleasure from a variety of modes: the realistic rendering of minute details; the reading of signs and deciphering of symbols; the color-filled optical massages; the expressed temperament in paint; the new twists, bends, and dips in the configuration of an idea. Art appreciation is a dance where the artist takes the lead.

Pure abstraction may be challenging for most to appreciate but it is also the simplest. It offers little clues, it likewise presents no distractions, it is candid and unpretentious- but it requires a ticket: to reach a point where we no longer ask what the elements of the composition mean and simply allow ourselves to be subject to the new form and experience that the works offer. To lose our bearings for the mean time, cast away our preconceptions- take what is freely given and swallow.

At times the subject matter is a verb; an act of finding the phenomena in our lives that resonate so we may create our own poetry.