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ARTWORK: Biography

 

When does a Wide Open Space reveal itself to be a window?

 

 

 

After a hiatus of about thirty years, and with the encouragement of a friend who was a ceramic sculptor, I began to work in clay.  Many of my pieces were heads with holes, cracks, and gaps.  A typical title was "More Space than Substance".  I was trying to work through my experience that the self was not some solid thing but rather a transient, ever changing process.

Next, I discovered photography and digital image editing.  As the above sample indicates, I was now playing with the "world" rather than with the "self".  I liked destabilizing perception.  The photograph above looks like a typical Hawaiian scene...the lovely, but unoccuppied grounds of a luxury hotel...except the blurred scene between the first and second palm tree trunks makes it look like a fogged window.  The momentary confusion causes the viewer to look closer.  Whenever the taken-for-granted is disturbed, the soul rises to the surface to inspect.  Hopefully my art provokes that response in many viewers.

 

 

 

 

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