Through years of drawing and painting from the human figure, I have developed a platform to explore my vision and a tool to transform that vision into paint, color and light. I am constantly striving to uncover new meanings and other dimensions by working with space, scale, depth, surface, color/shape transitions, and positive and negative forms. Similar to a dream, painting for me is an active dialog between the unconscious and the conscious where new form starts to emerge with a life of its own, charged with content. This content reveals the expression of new form in Art; figurative, yet abstract and metaphorical. With this language, the image can transcend the individual human experience, and express the rawest aspects of the human condition with powerful meaning. Torild Stray, New York 2010