The corner of my studio wall is now filled with small Tantra homage paintings. It’s been fun to do them—like having a conversation with another time and space. Of course, I don’t have the deep Hindu references of the artists who did the original abstract Tantra paintings. But I tried to keep my focus on the Yin/Yang qualities I saw in the original works—expansion and contraction, dark and light, old and new, balance and imbalance etc. The original artists created such harmony and sense of mystery.

For me other references keep creeping in—some jazzy colors and forms. I think of Sonia Delaunay sometimes or Ellsworth Kelly—so different but still I think of them. It’s our own time and place. It’s morning meditation for me. It’s curious to see what emerges as time goes on. Other ideas come. Things happen. Things change. Some days I paint over one of them that doesn’t feel right or whole. I keep showing up. Very small paintings are made.