Where Love Is:

It goes like this: I believe that Love is the most powerful force to have ever been felt and experienced. Without a doubt, the enveloping, warming experience and glorious manifestation of Love are the most valuable gifts that we have ever bestowed upon one another.

In my opinion, human kind is so very eager and, to some extent, so very desperate to “find” and to “feel” Love. The human race is a very lonely species. But loneliness is such a state that runs completely contrary to our nature, and it absolutely contradicts our purpose as a society ,as well as our innate desire to be with one another, as individuals.

Perhaps the very notion of what “Love” is has been altered and truly misunderstood throughout history. Many centuries ago, somewhere, somehow and in some mysterious fashion, we were conditioned to believe that Love is something to be ”found”, to “fall into” or to be discovered and experienced under “certain conditions and circumstances.” Perhaps we have, generation after generation, resigned ourselves to believe that Love is a state of being which distinctively triggers, promotes and nurtures emotions, feelings and episodes filled with hues of romance, melancholy, sentimental urges and dramatic nostalgia.

This painting tells of the innate human need to experience Love. The dove is representative of both the animal kingdom and of a state of purity. Of unaltered beingness. Instinctively, the dove knows this state and is able to experience Love unconditionally and within a realm where simplicity and openness abound. . . . (continued)