Early recollections of structures viewed from the back window of a moving station wagon were influential in creating my internal relationship between color and form. Influenced by the artists Ellsworth Kelly and Howard Hodgkin, color and form became interrelated.

As a pilot, I view another perspective. I visualize overlapping shapes, lines and structures that fit together in a visual puzzle. This puzzle, in its myriad form, becomes a mixture of colorful intersecting lines and shapes.

The juxtaposition between color and form, viewed from both visual dimensions, create an illusionary optical experience. There appears to exist a surreal calmness, an almost serene selective re-creation of reality in a metaphysical sense.

- Daniel J. O'Keefe