Life preservers consist of images of animals projected from my mind machine. Henry Miller describes the creative process that reveals the complex interior life and translates it into communicable form, “…[I]n the mind world, worlds unclassified, undenominated, unassimilated, form, break, unite, dissolve, and harmonize ceaselessly. In the mind world, ideas are the indestructible elements which form the jeweled constellations of the interior life. We move within their orbits, freely if we follow their intricate patterns, enslaved or possessed if we try to subjugate them. Everything external is but a reflection projected by the mind machine.[1]”
The paintings of life preservers project animals in the world that echo their images, in the unclassified world where the animals become ideas, ideas that are indestructible as they transcend beyond what I can imagine as a deliverer of the images because they precipitate into the interior lives of the observers. They are external images that tie me as a deliverer to the observers as receivers of the mind world.
[1] Miller, Henry (1949) Rosy Crucifixion: Grove Press, 1965, pp. 185-215