The initial spark for this show happened as I was engaged in my daily meditation, walking my dog Kevin, in the Acequia Madre ditch. Where it cuts through old trash piles behind the Indian School and Indian Hospital, I pick up pieces of glass that have been in the dirt so long they are iridescent from minerals in the soil. I had the sudden thought of “What if I was just transported through time, and am incorporating right here, right now”, sizzling and sparkling and spectrum- colored. Yeah, things like that happen to me. As a life-long lover of science fiction, practicing witch, and avid reader of edge science and psychology, concepts like time travel, morphic resonance, and cell memory are part of my lexicon.When I think about time travel, I’m thinking not only about Star Trek-like incorporation/ discorporation, but also human consciousness and time. Nostalgia, for instance, is a word from early medical psychology (like hysteria). It means a longing for a home that never was. Our culture right now is steeped in nostalgia, with people longing for a time and a way of life that never was. It’s a form of time shift. When you are day-dreaming of another time, are you in the room? Altered states-where are you? When someone is in the middle of a PTSD incident, try telling them it’s not real. Mnemonics-memory triggers, how fast do they take you back? Light speed? Faster?Many concepts in science fiction have later been proven to be true, much as modern quantum physics has validated aspects of ancient magic, like particles being in two places at once, or moving faster than light. ”Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” wrote Arthur C Clark. His book “Childhood’s End” describes a shock so grave-one that precedes the end of humankind, that it travels backwards in time through human consciousness and dna. Samuel Delany, in “Dhalgren”, tells a story of a city and inhabitants that exist just outside of “normal” space/time. The incident that shifted reality is never revealed, just accepted. In “The Lathe of Heaven” Ursula Le Guin writes of a man who’s dreams alter waking “reality”. William Gibson coined the word “cyberspace” in his book “Neuromancer”, which pre-dated the web by about 10 years. His book “The Peripheral” tells of a future where one can project their consciousness into a mechanical body for, say, a meeting in another part of the world, or another time. My work has always been narrative. The paintings in this show are personal narratives as opposed to the sculptures that are more direct statements about ideas. The work altogether creates a “field narrative”. As a young artist I was surprised and actually a bit frightened to see work that looked like what I had just made, but from the other side of the world, and 2000 years earlier. How could I be telling the same story, with the same characters? I came to realize that I was not just an individual tiny speck in the vastness of space and time, but part of the greater whole. Humans are storytellers. It is what binds us together, across time.