The fetching and deeply conscious paintings of Paul Klee have long interested me. I admire Klee as one of those gifted artists who see beneath the surface of things to plumb the essential and sometimes the exotic depths of their subjects, I might even say explore their subject's spiritual essence. The French word for key is "clef," pronounced exactly like Paul Klee's name. In some way, this is not an accident. It is more the expression of the secrete life of the universe, about which we are given only glimmers.Coming to sense this distant life, so much larger than any one of us, is exactly why art is so important. The collages in t his triptych each begin with images from on of Klee's paintings, extracted from their backgrounds ( and used with the same positioning as the paintings) as the basis for my own exploration into the state of emptiness.