The world needs Art.  The world needs art of the higher spiritual orders as well as art of the lower orders.  Great Art communicates beyond the barriers of language, culture, and even physical and mental handicaps, and art of the lower orders labels our products and decorates our streets and stationery.

The lower orders of art are not only essential to the world, but to the artist as well, as this is the dimension of art which the artist may use to sharpen technical skills and to experiment with new ideas as the necessary diligent daily practice (of the mundane) which is essential to the production of spiritual art.  Herein lies the beauty of repetition, because it is with this diligence of personal development which, when applied to (and as) spiritual development, that will eventually catapult the mundane object into radiant spiritual dimensions, simply by the spiritual energy poured into its creation.  
Using the creative process of making Art as a spiritual path is in essence a form of Karma Yoga.  Karma Yoga involves becoming at peace in the present moment, making a dedication (to the Great Spirit, for instance) of the object and activity, performing the task to the greatest ability (as if directly for the Great Spirit), and then completely detatching from the object (in ownership, in either pride or disappointment,) in every way, and present to the object to the world as a gift in the name of the Great Spirit.

This being said, Art must first please the artist because only its creator can be sure that it truly captures the personal Vision.  Yet once the personal Vision is established, becoming that Vision is the first step in Karma Yoga, and creating from the greatest capacity of ability within that state is certain to capture its essence.

The object then, if it captures its essence, can be said to have satisfied the three dimensions of beauty – the spiritual, the archetypal, and technical beauty – which are seen with the eyes of flesh, reason, and spirit.  The artist then, (as I see it) must be able to see with each – the eye of flesh, the eye of reason (or mind), and the eye of contemplation (or spirit) – by simultaneously existing consciously in each dimension, and thus consciously endeavouring to satisfy these three principles of beauty.

And if endeavouring to satisfy the three dimensions of beauty is diligent practice, then seeing clearly with these eyes may be called Vision.  Vision is sometimes intuitive, sometimes induced, and the creation of art is often a reaction to this Vision.  This reaction to make art is the ‘calling’ of art.  And if diligent practice applied to this reaction can be called a Mission, then Mission is applied Vision.

And as an artist, I find myself filled with an abundance of spiritual vision – and a calling to create – which, as a mission, amounts to (as I see it) a mending and combing of the common threads which unite all of humanity.

Much of my work, but not all, is a therapeutic externalization of some basic (usually second and third chakra) emotions, but I generally tend to manipulate universal icons within a personal setting, not often creating new referents, but offering a unique dimension to already understood conditions, thereby retaining some uniqueness in presenting what we all as humans understand.