I have always been interested in patterns, because I see them everywhere. So as an artist I often paint them. It’s a way of seeing the wholeness before separating it into things. I recently rediscovered fractal patterns while looking at Jackson Pollock paintings which are chaotic but contain many fractals. We normally think of fractals as mathematical models but they are also every where in nature and I believe it’s one of the primary reasons being in nature is so healing.

One of my teachers, Chogyam Trungpa spoke of the mandala principle characterized by “orderly chaos”. This is a deep teaching in my Buddhist tradition which I have been trying to paint most of my life. This sacred world contains both confusion and clarity, delusion and wakefulness. And fractals reflect these complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are images of dynamic systems constantly dying and being born again.