Origen helped me understand that through all the years as an artist that beginnings and endings are constantly happening simultaneously as an eternal cycle.  The never-ending cycle of life and of creation through transformation continues to fascinate me. Origen also has to do with that mysterious moment of creation as an artist.  What happens in that instant when the first mark is made on the surface?  In that moment, the materialization of a work of art begins.  Where it comes from is inexplicable.