Repetition

In an attempt to find answers on what it means to be HUMAN, I find questions. My work is a meditation upon these questions.

Rhythm is movement, cellular, fundamental and critical to existence.

Sequence in calligraphy, the cadence of poetry, the beat, in the writing of prose or music, the pulsations of a beating heart and, or the printing of the EKG; create movement, which is, to our senses, a confirmation of Life.

I find rhythm and staticity forever together and opposed necessarily, as are Life and Death. This theory and inevitably ongoing questions have me using the enclosures of the rectangle, square and box shapes to symbolize the "Physical Body" in which something "Non Physical" is trapped, existing, molding or exiting.

Recently, demanding of a more tactile quality in the process, the work has become better translated into a three dimensional format. Using found objects, in my path, trusting that I will find what I require when I need it; I begin the work with an idea. The work gives birth to itself, I am the catalyst.

In the years before Sept. 11th 2001, I put together the "Freedom Series" using remnants of the city at the heart of American Freedom and Independence, Philadelphia, with the Islamic belief that "All men are created Free and Equal". In an attempt to create an image that confirmed Body with Soul, a wholeness that I was personally seeking, it became apparent to me that I had, inadvertently created, a visually Harmonious Cultural Union (construction) between America’s multiplicity in traditions and the Islamic World, thus confirming an established and parallel goal.

"Surely all Art is the result of ones having been in danger, on having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. The further one goes, the more private, the more personal, the more singular an experience becomes, and the thing one is making is, finally, the necessary, irrepressible and as nearly as possible, definite utterance of this singularity…. Therein lies the enormous aide the work of art brings to the life of the one who MUST make it- that it is his epitome, the knot in the rosary at which his life recites a prayer." In this quote, Rainer Maria Rilke’s words most eloquently describe what art means to me.


Sand, Water, and Time, copper, wood, plaster, 39" x 36" 4"	Sand, Water, and Time, copper, wood, plaster, 39" x 36" 4"	Roots, encaustics on canvas, 28" x 28"
In an attempt to find answers on what it means to be HUMAN, I find questions. My work is a meditation upon these questions. Rhythm is movement, cellular, fundamental and critical to existence. Sequence in calligraphy, the cadence of poetry, the beat, in the writing of prose or music, the pulsations of a beating heart and, or the printing of the EKG; create movement, which is, to our senses, a confirmation of Life. I find rhythm and staticity forever together and opposed necessarily, as are Life and Death. This theory and inevitably ongoing questions have me using the enclosures of the rectangle, square and box shapes to symbolize the "Physical Body" in which something "Non Physical" is trapped, existing, molding or exiting. Recently, demanding of a more tactile quality in the process, the work has become better translated into a three dimensional format. Using found objects, in my path, trusting that I will find what I require when I need it; I begin the work with an idea. The work gives birth to itself, I am the catalyst. In the years before Sept. 11th 2001, I put together the "Freedom Series" using remnants of the city at the heart of American Freedom and Independence, Philadelphia, with the Islamic belief that "All men are created Free and Equal". In an attempt to create an image that confirmed Body with Soul, a wholeness that I was personally seeking, it became apparent to me that I had, inadvertently created, a visually Harmonious Cultural Union (construction) between America’s multiplicity in traditions and the Islamic World, thus confirming an established and parallel goal. "Surely all Art is the result of ones having been in danger, on having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. The further one goes, the more private, the more personal, the more singular an experience becomes, and the thing one is making is, finally, the necessary, irrepressible and as nearly as possible, definite utterance of this singularity…. Therein lies the enormous aide the work of art brings to the life of the one who MUST make it- that it is his epitome, the knot in the rosary at which his life recites a prayer." In this quote, Rainer Maria Rilke’s words most eloquently describe what art means to me.
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