Painting is inspiring me to paint. It is my one and only favorite mystery.
I follow where it goes and sometimes it is troublesome. Sometimes it is bliss with back pain. It is something I can do which has relevance in and of itself but it is unexplainable.
Words interrupt the long conversation.
Images are so forgiving.
If I can make a painting to be looked at and seen again and again,
if I can make a painting that means something at different times and in different places,
then I have made some impact in time and space.
I use the cross (+) a lot, symbolizing the intersection of time and space, but
as with all symbols, it represents many other things as well.

This is why I paint...

Cathie Joy Young