The modern contemporary artist is in his or her own way an ancient shaman, giving form, articulation, and mood to materials such that they move our souls. Wandering lines were drawn from edge to edge over the surface. At some point I decided to draw a rectangle that cut a section from the wandering lines. I experienced a certain feeling of being in the sketched body, as I was drawing which I think comes through. That's my shaman nature trying to fuse with the object being created.
Many artists seem to think that the objective of painting the nude is to explore eroticism.
This sketch is about the fifth in a series of sketches for a painting that will explore the dark side of international peace-keeping. The overall painting will be composed of about six separate paintings, such that when hung in a rectangular shape, an overall image will emerge. The head study, being only a part of one painting, is in its very early stages. I have always been fascinated by don Quixote. He aspired to the nobleness of man in a world that considered such ideals laughable.