There is no separation between my graphic work and poetry. I use both to explore and communicate my personal spiritual journey. None of the images represent real events rather the emotions of the events. The colors work with each other to recreate the poetry. My process is I create a story or idea I wish to communicate and express it first as a poem, then as a sketch, and finally the finished work you see. Future work will include my poems. A project in the works is a book of published poems with paintings and collages. When asked to describe my work I prefer spiritual transcendence, it’s a goal, to make peace with an internal conflict. In ancient African mythology there is a tale of two combatants, judged by divine intelligence. The two combatants were brothers, will and desire. Their mother was the Divine Mother or Mother of the Gods. This story is used to describe a psychological state, the conflict between what we desire and what we will. We face such a battle every time we do something that contradicts a goal, like drinking too much the night before a big meeting. Here the desire to drink over powered the will to succeed at work. The original story tells us to always choose the will over desire.
Jeán-Micheal Holmes