In the summer of 2022, I spent a weekend at my old friend's 11th century castle in the south of France. I hadn't seen my her in 30 years, and being together in this very special place made us feel a somehow magical energy, as we spent the night with friends and kids on the rooftop of the castle soaring just below the Milky Way, savoring great wine and fresh seafood with Pink Floyd in our ears, linking together the ancestral, historical, and recent past, as well as the sky above us with the valley below, in a perfectly aligned present.
So this painting represents, as far as I can explain it, the moving metaphysical alignment I felt that night, connecting the eyelash beat of my existence on earth with an 11th century castle, our human history and the endlessness of time and sky.
