Mary’s Tears was originally intended as four separate paintings, but grew together as a cohesive series meant to be viewed as a visual symphony.  It was one of my first works in which expressive color burst into the very graphic style I was pursuing at the time.  As such, it was very experimental and I was surprised at the unity and depth of emotion that came out of it.  As pure abstraction, the colors and shapes glow and float in an ever-changing reflection of powerful energies and spiritual light.  At once cosmological and biological, through its sequence and internal logic it nevertheless seems to ring with a poignancy that is truly human.