Process Loop is a continuum of energy flows involving varied states, events, relationships and moods, in search of personal homeostasis. This journey is an ever-evolving fluctuation of peaks and valleys. The high often relates to the moment when one has de-coded their prior work and transforms it into a stimulating new code. This visual phase prior to homeostasis is the heightened productivity zone when the work is at its most emotive. This often results in a breakthrough followed by a meditative state, resulting in an elated experience, a type of a holistic nirvana followed by a sense of being inadequate in art and life. This last flow state is the most challenging, but is needed to transform the energy into the next dimension of growth.

The Personal Process Loop has six distinct phases.
1. Research: cognitive and corporeal
2. The Muse: communication and passion
3. The Model: improvisational and embodied
4. The Visual Imagery: solitude, intuitive, and proactive.
5. Publicity: exhibition, social gathering, public dialogs, and critics.
6. Reflection: dialectic, doubt and education.

The Process Loop Explained
1. Research: Cognitive and Corporeal. The research component is an ongoing process. Building on the prior series, it begins with reading and listening to audiotapes, immediately followed by some form of exercise. The mind/body connection helps me to mentally organize my personal response to the research. Internet searches and some visual stimulation in the form of movies or dance performances comes next as I continually collect images and text to inspire the new series.

2. Muse: Communication and Passion. I open up a dialog with a variety of people requesting comments on my thoughts and questions. A muse appears in some form or another to fuel the passion that is needed to being the visual work into fruition. This comes in a variety of forms; it could be a batch of war letters from a deceased fighter pilot, love letters from a alias internet relationship, a new friend I meet through this questioning process, a mentor who inspires me, or at times even the new medium itself.

3. Model: Improvisational and Embodied. The photo shoot takes place with one or more models in the privacy of the studio or woods were we live. This begins an intimate mental connection between my subject and me. We discuss the new concepts I have been thinking about along with form, composition, natural movements, and energy. The shoot is an improvisation process that only last a few hours. I thrive on the synergy of the model and the artist.

4. Visual Imagery: Solitude and intuitive. Images from my photos, drawings, and research materials are splayed around the studio, as I try to create order out of the chaos. I work in a push-pull style: adding and subtracting images, working very intuitively, listening to the painting telling me what to do. When it becomes silent it is finished. I am alone, listening to loud techno music, making huge messes, staying up half the night and having a love/hate relationship with myself. This active working phase is fueled with heightened emotions and the nirvana that keeps the art addiction alive in me.

5. Publicity: Exhibition, Critics, Social Interaction, and Communication.
Documentation of the series is done through photographs, newspaper articles, and a statement describing what has fueled this series. Announcements are sent out, the images are framed and exhibited. Titles and prices are determined. The opening goes up and I am a celebrity for a month. The work seems to encourage people to talk about topics that are usually taboo for them: Sensuality, Spirituality, Passion, War, Death, Addictions, Infertility, and Intimate Relationships.

6. Reflection: dialectic, doubt and education.
The Valley sets in. A sense of worthlessness overtakes me, wondering what I will be when I grow up; a pharmaceutical distributor, a private detective, an art therapist? Or will I stay on course and become a successful artist? I catch up on the domestic projects that I have put aside for to long. My studio gets cleaned. I take a class, start a Masters program, get a new computer tool, or meet a new friend and bang — I feel vital and the desire resurfaces to begin the process loop anew.