I had seen the design of a maze on a record cover and was inspired to create this maze painting. I spent quite a while figuring it out on graph paper and then laying it out on the canvas. It follows a path starting with the entry at the bottom and visits each of the larger square spaces in turn--Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. I just painted it like a journey, finishing each part as I went along, with no going back. When I got to "Air" I enlisted the help of Tom Akawie, who had a studio in the same building, and who used his airbrush to create the moon.
The painting took 9 months to paint, working almost every day. Finishing it was like a birth; it felt like my first masterpiece. I exhibited it in the “22 Visionaries” show at the SF Art Festival. It sold almost immediately and I've lost track of it; I regret that my only slide of it is not better. |