States of Being

“Art is the visual poetry that reflects human internal exploration. It will both hold our hand as we travel along our journey and plant a flag to memorialize significant moments. Art reflects our change; past, present, and aspirational.

With the use of a distilled color palate, I have stripped away the excess to expose the essential. The ocean is my instrument to the internal. Vast, restless, calm, tempestuous, restorative. She is the beginning and the continuum; she has imbued us with all her moods. Though we will forever struggle to comprehend her and she will always have a side that is unmistakably powerful, when we gaze upon the sea, we open ourselves to that which lies beneath our own surface. We have sprung from the ocean.  We remain mostly liquid. Between the rage of the storms the surface returns to a placid calm.”

- Eric Zener, Artist Statement on States of Being