My first encounter with the Hebrew Letters began an odyssey that would be full of ecstatic wonder and numinous encounters, and one that would take me five years to complete. When I began to paint the Hebrew alphabet, I quickly came to realize the importance the alphabet plays within the experience and understanding of the divine energy, as encountered with the Kabbalah.

Even in the beginning the Letters were very insistent; they were pressing on me from all directions to get started, and so I immediately opened myself to them. As with most of my other artistic work, when the Image presents itself, it does so in a very particular medium. It is as if the Images themselves select the material from which they will emerge rather than from a conscious decision that I make. Therefore, when I knew I was to paint the Hebrew Letters, I also knew within myself, that they were to be made in graphite and watercolor. This knowing is intuitive and instinctual; it is the voice of the subtle bodies giving shape to their own forms.

Each Letter plumbed my depths in different ways. I did not rush to complete painting the Alphabet, for I knew that the process itself and the experiences it gave form to were to be savored. I certainly felt then, and I continue to feel now, that my work thus far is only a beginning, and that the Letters will continue to reveal mysteries of Life as I move in their full presence. It took me over five years to complete the twenty-two Letters, for I found that I could only paint them when They called to me, rather than when I wanted Them to appear--revealing aspects of the Kabbalistic mystery of opening to, and receiving, the wisdom of God.