Statements


Artist Statement for the First Web Page, August 2000	Artist's Statement for the First Web PageAugust 2000 I have spent most of my life as a scientist, and have been a physician since the late seventies. During much of my medical career I used meditation and guided imagery with patients to discover the roots of their pain and illness. In this work, as in my own personal work, I began to...	Read more...
Transformative Visions, 2009	Transformative Visions 2009 Sponsored by Onelife Institute, Oakland CA Held at Studio One, Oakland, CA As I write, children of Abraham are bombing their brothers and sisters in Gaza; survivors of the slave trade in Congo are slaughtering other survivors; children are sleeping on bare, stained mattresses in crack houses in...	Read more...
ProArts 2 x 2 2011, August 2010	In support of my application to the competition into the ProArts 2 x 2 2011 exhibition: I am interested in the way that privilege (gender, skin color, sexual preference, physical and mental ableness) makes it impossible, or at least very difficult, for people with it to have an empathic understanding of people who lack it. This...	Read more...

Artist Statement for the First Web Page, August 2000

Artist's Statement for the First Web PageAugust 2000

I have spent most of my life as a scientist, and have been a physician since the late seventies. During much of my medical career I used meditation and guided imagery with patients to discover the roots of their pain and illness. In this work, as in my own personal work, I began to...

Transformative Visions, 2009

Transformative Visions 2009

Sponsored by Onelife Institute, Oakland CA

Held at Studio One, Oakland, CA

As I write, children of Abraham are bombing their brothers and sisters in Gaza; survivors of the slave trade in Congo are slaughtering other survivors; children are sleeping on bare, stained mattresses in crack houses in...

ProArts 2 x 2 2011, August 2010

In support of my application to the competition into the ProArts 2 x 2 2011 exhibition:

I am interested in the way that privilege (gender, skin color, sexual preference, physical and mental ableness) makes it impossible, or at least very difficult, for people with it to have an empathic understanding of people who lack it. This...