Representational Allusions is a fundamental instrument of every persons everyday mind. It is used as our basic construct system of all our own realities to map, cubbyhole, arrange, and order the empirical world around us. Abstract paintings on the other hand, effect the mind in a completely different paradym. Often hitting areas of the brain that lay hidden and dormant. The mind then attempts to find a balance, a feeling, a reaction that automatically tries to use the representational tools used on a day to day basis to organize the abstraction.
The artworks in this Series appear to depict real places in a moment in time. Actually they are fantastic fantasy scenes created to allow the viewer to escape into their own inner worlds to project one’s own reactions onto and through the image that provokes some feeling, memory, or wish.

“Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (Hindu)

In Buddhist philosophy, Māyā connotes a magic show, an allusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem.