My best friend tells me that my work is not art, it is meditation. That's right, in the same sense that in Japan flower arranging, tea, or calligraphy are considered what we would call spiritual practices. My art began when I began my work with a Zen teacher. It was an essential discipline for learning my practice. I was not doing art to learn how to monetize brush, paint, and paper. Zen was about learning to be present, immediate, and authentic simply, without saying a word or relying on the conventional for meaning. I hope that what I practice, art or meditation, does that. I hope that it speaks for itself with directness and simplicity to the viewer's own sense of meaning. The viewer completes the work.