Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Martyrs and Saints

The appearance of martyrs and saints as figures in my work may seem strange as I am a Jew.  Yet, as Carl Jung observed, we have access to a 'collective unconscious' or ancestral memories that are causal.  If artists stopped to ask the why and where of their every stroke, we wouldn't get past the studio door.
Fukushima
I can attribute these figures to the process that creates them, a balance between intuition and intention; they grow from the found objects and are shaped by my sense of symbolic 'rightness'.

Shackled

Saint Mona
























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