These images attempt to represent visually the shock forces that may be influential to perception, cognition, and interpretation by using the patterns in the meteorites as analogy.

Every meteorite is hypothesized to carry an imprint with unique patterns revealing its collision history. In the same manner that the meteorites have imprints, perhaps our brains are also encrypted by the powerful emotional disruptions experienced in life. If so, then the encryptions may have formed patterns responsible for our perception, cognition, and interpretations.

With this premise in mind, the painting "Portrait of an Emotion," uses the exposed patterns of the meteorite as analogy to depict the encryptions after experiencing emotional disruptions. For the sake of visual hypothesis, and for the fun of it, in the painting "Cognitive Selection," the red areas are a visual (and abstract) representation of the patterns of choices. In other words, they suggest that the freedom-to-choose may be limited to an established set of cumulative encryptions. Interestingly, the concept from these paintings may be incidentally aligned with German philosopher Schopenhauer's: Man can control what he wills but not how he wills. Meaning that emotions usually arise within an established set of patterns and our freedom to choose is defined within the parameters of the patterns.

"...everything on earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence." (Quintasket, 1888-1936, p. 31) Salish

A hummingbird in native Peruvian mythology represents energy similar to the sun. The relationship to energy may stem from the hummingbird's fast motion. When in flight, hummingbird's wings move from 12 to 90 times per second, and their heart beats 1260 times per minute
(hummingbirdsociety, 2009). These paintings are about the invisible energy of the hummingbird. When the hummingbird is in flight, I visualize the trail of vortices. The painting "Traces of Hummingbird" is an attempt to depict those in-visible vortices.