As a young artist I was very excited by the world around me, the color of a landscape, the shapes of people and things. I would try to express the feelings the visual world engendered in me in an expressionistic manner. As time went by, however; form, color, design and feelings became more and more exciting. I felt then that being more abstract allowed me to express the essence of things rather than reproducing what I saw.
Although I have a definite idea about what the work I'm engaged in means to me, I expect people to have their own feelings about what they see. I am sure when people listen to a Bach concerto they don't know what Bach had in mind, but they enjoy it anyway.