In greater and greater numbers, people are beginning to believe that painting is dead. Now, after an incredibly fecund period in the twentieth century, full of artistic developments, it is time to open new paths, recognizing that profit is not, and should not be, the principal criterion dominating contemporary art and driving creative expression. Otherwise those who believe that art is dead will inevitably be proven right.

This realization, which is emerging everywhere in the world, exists on every level: political, economic and environmental. Priority is given here to the cultural level.

After having explored the medium, the color, the light, the form, after having been ideological, expiatory, or activist, after having been the mirror of our consumer society, or the depiction of our unconscious, Pictorial Art is ready to close the chapter on the 20th century and start a fresh page.

This new art mustn't be only the representation of what we are, but also the representation of what we would like to be.

The contemporary art scene does not always give the artist the liberty to adhere to this ideal. We are too often forced to work under the constraints of public or private expectations, where the prevailing taste is towards the large and the conventional. Rather than painting according to the dictates of our sensibility, which might tell us that a more modest format offers greater accessibility without sacrificing either integrity or scope, we are impressed onto an Art assembly line, reluctant slaves to fashion and unwilling panderers to profit.

I would like to propose a new path, one I consider rich with possibilities. It is an art form based on a contemplative approach, drawing for its inspiration upon the poetic representation of the fractal world and the universal symbol of the spiral. This art form is a reflection of the creative process itself, and shows us that the three axes of Art, Spirit and Science, despite their differing criteria of Truth, are each an expression of the same exploration of the mystery of creation.

This Pictorial Proposition I have chosen to give the name: Fractal Syncretism.