Paintings and Drawings

Interested in the large formats and philosophy of action artists from the contemporary New York art scene I invested in some huge rolls of canvas and got to work on these paintings and drawings. The postive and negative shapes in these works are defined by the footprints of different key martial arts forms from the traditional Shaolin practice with some of them being practiced by people for more than 900 years in an unbroken line of transmission eventually being taught heart to heart and mind to mind by 34th generation Shaolin Temple Warrior Monk Shi Yan Ming.