Laguna ART

It has been a grand life. Raised on a small farm in Northern Minnesota, I was emerged in the sensual beauty of nature. As a young man I was fortunate to study for three years in a Benedictine Monastery and learn to appreciate the contemplative life. This was followed by the rejuvenating experience of thirty years as a psychological counselor to adolescents. I built boats and sailed one of them to Hawaii with my family.
After a career in counseling psychology, I spent years devoted to the exploration of quantum physics, cultural and consensus reality, Western and Zen Buddhist philosophy. I was challenged to visually create the magical act of the human mind creating our illusion of phenomena... lifting images from the quantum state. Truly, this has been a grand life. www.samsarajack.com

Primary Point Images. My artistic vision was formed in the study of modern psychology, Zen Buddhism, quantum physics, and the neuroscience of perception. It is important for me to capture Primary Point Images... images at the moment of creation in the human mind. It is my hope that the viewer can share the moment.
I will often utilize many different media in the creation of the Primary Image. This process involves pencil, pen sketches, photography, acrylic and oil paint with different mediums... all of this can involve months of painstaking work before I am pleased with my final Primary Image. That master image is then faithfully translated into very limited archival images that are perfectly and permanently reproduced on solid metal surfaces and on museum quality canvas. Many of these Primary Images are then displayed on my individually painted acrylic or oil complementing backgrounds. Each approved image is finally authenticated with the my signature and stamp. www.samsarajack.com


All art is a "hand pointing to the moon". As viewers we must not become attached to the hand, but search earnestly for the moon.