In 1999 I moved my studio from Portland, Oregon to the San Francisco Bay Area. I paint to music and in a repurposed industrial building next to a railroad track the tendency is to turn up the volume. This resulted in an introductory harangue from my downstairs neighbor Naoko Haruta, an artist classically trained by Chiura Obata in Japanese brush painting. She was working at that time with high-key yellow linear splashes and drips. I applied her influence to the series of work I began with Pumped Phase Conjugate Mirror and Primary Convergence. With high-key linear brush work, applied with riggers using nearly liquid formulations of paint and medium over the underpainting, I finally struck the right combination of energy and mass which I believed the pedagogy of Simplexity could achieve. My Chinese doctor, a martial artist and highly paid international Feng-Shui consultant believes this work to be a battery or capacitor for Qi. This fortunate metaphorical observation was not accidentally suggested in the painting. My painting objectives are informed and guided by a life-long attraction to scientific inquiry and progressive thought experimentation.