Surreal Visionism

The Unforeseen Subtle Revolution.

If you have been pushing paint around on a surface for fifty years, the last thing you expect to discover is a new “ism.” It’s absolutely insane to realize that the creative action followed has formed a new vehicle of expression. It is even more unfathomable that this new form of structured space has emerged within a traditional art medium.

This realization occurred a few years ago while explaining what I do in an email to art galleries. I was elated for quite some time after.

It was very strange as the epiphany happened in slow motion; it definitely dawned on me. I then spent months, as objectively as humanly possible, scrutinizing the discovery so as not to be labeled delusional.

For over a quarter of a century, I sensed that the expression of my art was different; I had never encountered another artist exploring the same concept. For a long time, I described it as “abstract expressionism in the language of realism,” but I now understand it as a new form of surrealism. This medium possesses its own language—one that any artist can learn to speak, much like realism.

Quantum Aesthetics

This expression builds on the foundations of past artistic revolutions such as Cubism and Abstract art, offering a new framework for visual and psychological exploration that aligns with our quantum view of the world. It represents the shift from Newtonian to quantum thinking—moving from a deterministic, predictable framework to one defined by complexity, uncertainty, unpredictability, and self-organization. It is a continuous, energetic dance between perception and introspection, a realm of probability rather than a single, definite journey. The expression exists in a state of potentiality. While the Cubists experimented with stop-motion films, we now embrace virtual reality and quantum theory.

Awareness in Creation

Even with an intimate understanding of the creative dynamic, I cannot definitively comprehend what I am doing. This is exactly what I love about it. From experience, I trust that the process of creation is inherently intertwined with the essence of the final outcome.

The integrity of awareness in the creative moment presents a form of meditation (a state of being that does not change). Some essence of this enters the plasticity of the art medium. My art passion is that ineffable type of human life force that gets captured in the plasticity of the medium. I know that it is there—it is locked into the painting. That human spirit is free and present in the medium.

This expressions communication described above and the space form substance where illusions occur I see as revolutionary.