"The ingredient one needs for life as well as the creative process is synchronicity. In order to attain the benefits of synchronicity, one needs to embrace uncertainty. Uncertainty opens up any and all possibilities to present themselves."

"Through an impulse, idea or action the creative act begins ... The metamorphosis of the work is initiated and continues. Allowing the unknown enables the work to evolve until the artist reaches that magic moment of completion, nothing needs to be added or changed. You know you've created an image that is surprising, mysterious and beautiful. This process is acausal, which means you cannot make it happen, other than allowing for uncertainty. What attracts me to abstraction is that it exists in the realm of ideas, not having a physical or concrete existence, an altered view of reality. Creating abstract imagery allows for an expression that is personal to my ideas and visions." Mindy Gluck is an artist and retired teaching artist with the United Federation of Teachers. She lives and works in Jersey City and has a studio at 150 Bay St.