This is the showroom of my studio.  It doubles (and sometimes triples) as a quiet, contemplative space for me.  Sitting in the presence of art never fails to puts things in perspective.  Accordingly, it's a great meeting space for individuals and small groups that need a creative, inspirational environment.  I teach metapsychology here.

"atelier dicasso"

This is part of my work space in the back.

I am a longtime student of indigenous culture and cosmology.  It has always been a primary source of inspiration for my work in both art and metapsychology.  It is untrue that  indigenous people are "prepersonal" meaning that their egos are not as developed as modern people.  There is no such thing as "pre" or "transpersonal".  There's only the personal and the impersonal and they bear no relationship to each other at all.  You're either in one state of mind or the other.  It is not a matter of degree and there is no in-between.  Indigenous people are as painfully self conscious as we are, perhaps more so because they have never lost a deep and abiding sense of the spirit.     

I collect, sell and advise other collectors on early and pre-twentieth century African sculpture and maintain a strong presence of it in the studio for inspiration.

Most people don't realize that African sculpture was the inspiration for much of Picasso's cubist figurative work such as "Desmoiselles d'Avignon", a piece associated with the advent of abstraction in modern art.  It is not an overstatement to say that modern art derives directly from Africa.  Another example of this influence can be seen in the piece of sculpture to the right.  The Luban style of sculpture shown here was the inspiration for Modigliani's well known caryatid figures.  The elongated facial style of Pangwe sculpture (French name for Fang) also inspired his unique style of figurative painting and sculpture.  The relationship of African art to modern art is just so foundational and though acknowledged to some degree, its importance is grossly understated presumably due to deep and longstanding racial and cultural bias toward Africa.  The role of African art in modern art is an important topic that I hope to write and talk more about in the future. 

"funky but cool"...
 

A jazz singer from New York City stopped
by one afternoon recently and dubbed the studio,
"Redmond's answer to Soho!"...
I loved it!