Click for individual images. Text below. Lightness, in the fullest sense of the word, is what I have been seeking: lightness as a quality of color, luminous and radiant; lightness as a quality of space, open and aerial; lightness as a quality of motion, weightless and animated. For many years my work appeared to me like an intricate web, a labyrinth of paths, connections and interruptions, with no beginning or end, that never allowed the viewer a place of entry. As Gasquet wrote about Cezanne, we "descend with the painter into the tangled roots of things." As I explored those roots, lightness seemed a distant goal, inevitably postponed. Very slowly, after a voyage to India, long desired, the skeins and tangles of the dense matrix in my work began to relax, dissolve and finally breathe. What I envision to be the network underlying all things is still visible--the collision of particles or traffic, the continuous conversation of the Mind--but my palette is lighter and the work is infused with a new buoyancy. A variety of dots, circles and punctuated ellipses still insist on appearing, but now they seem akin to lights or eyes. Perhaps, like beacons, they signal the lightness that I am looking for. Awareness has infinite gradations, like light. Ignazio Silone

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