I am basically a realist, but my paintings more and more are developing a surreal edge. I believe that creating a work of art (or recreating it as a viewer) is a function very closely related to extrasensory perception and other related phenomena that are also derived from intuitive insight. It is a kind of "magic." Also it is my conviction that more creative people are more psychic than their less creative counterparts.

In the past century, we have become aware that the world is far more "mystical" and strange that we ever imagined-or even can imagine. Quantum mechanics has demonstrated that. Yet, it was over two thousand years ago that the Greek philosophers hypothesized the atom. Over two centuries ago, Kant conjectured about the "world as it really is"-numena, he called these very basic elements or stimuli. He deduced that "reality" as we perceive it is the creation of our minds and our senses, that "true reality" is an illusion.

A major role of the arts is to interpret and define "reality," and the arts and humanities always have anticipated the discoveries of science. Early in our existence as a species, our creative imaginations gave us magic and the notion that doing something in a specific way and a specific order would yield a desired result. This notion became the basis for science and the scientific method. It is in attempting to capture this cloaked world that creative artists aspire.

[Marvin Moon earned his Ph.D. at Penn State University where his research and dissertation addressed an hypothesized relationship between creativity and extrasensory perception.]