The process of creation begins with lovemaking. Conception occurs deep within the woman when her precious egg accepts the fertilization of a man's sperm. Lovemaking is a man's only bodily pleasure in the process of creating new life. It's all he's given.

The woman's body takes over. Pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, these are only her experiences. He can never know what these incredible processes feel like. He is shut out of the deepest mysteries of the beginnings of embodied life.

Personally I think this is one of the most unfair aspects of existence. I regale against it.

But it's reality. Hence these drawings and paintings. Ecstasies of the body. Petri dish insemination and mechanical wombs? What a dry life that would be!

My lovers illustrate the beginning of the story. The story of the maternal body, of the birth of new life.

This art project, to have some paintings of conception, of lovemaking, of the feeling of being connected to the universe's depths, to add, along with my birth paintings, to a video talk, may seem, oh I can't find the words, but actually  explores normal desire.

(If you click on any image in the slideshow you'll go to the images at Picasa where you can read the captions for each painting).