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The Icons
The single, continuous line is free of old traditions and
speaks on its own. A single, unbroken line creates a symbol
that carries a message. A visual image, like a sound bit, that
attempts to tell a story using only shape and color. |
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| The Mamu’
series for example is an attempt at portraying a spirit, hence
the bird motif. This spirit is a self generating spirit which
is why I’ve incorporated the spiral motif. The true subject
of this portrait is a woman in her late seventies with that
fullness of spirit that wills itself to exist more in the positive
rather than the negative despite all that it has endured. With
all of her dignity and strength she often looses her femininity
in a way but adds to my idea of femininity in another. What
comes after nubile virgin and mother? Mamu’. She makes me look
forward to being older. |
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The Phoenix here called
"The Pearl" is another motif that I
enjoy working with. Again it is a portrayal of a feminine aspect.
The Phoenix was condemned by the gods to die with each sunset
and birth with each sunrise for having stolen the pearl of wisdom.
She births from her own ashes. Births from fire. I like to see
her crowned for keeping the pearl. |
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She seems damned twice to me. Once with the burden of knowledge
and again punished for stealing it when it was forbidden to
her. The Phoenix once was used as the symbol of the queen
in the Orient. She weaves a world around her with the movement
of her body and from a font on her head which I did not invent
but found in history. Our potent of thought and spirit seems
indicated. The Christians used this font idea to portray someone
in possession of the Holy Spirit.
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The Geometrics
Here I explore what geometric shapes can be born of a single,
continuous line and inventing how these diverse, rather arbitrary
shapes can work harmoniously together. |
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| How they transform between
point, line and actual form. What can exist, how does it exist
and how does it interact with what is around it. |
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to say. What little adventure can I make. "The Hermit
Kermit" is a great example of this process. That
little central motif signifying nothing but a single entity
that seems rather happy in it’s little environment. La
Meditazione" (The Meditation) was more deliberate.
The earth toned knot at the base signifying someone meditating
and the spirals the thoughts. My works are color coded so to
speak. Blue, symbolic of water and the subconscious is a clearly
defined spiral and yellow, used mostly to express happiness,
is the other dominant spiral. |
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"Il Cappello
di Nonno" (Grandpa’s Hat) This summer the sun was
especially strong in the south of Italy and created situations
the farmers had never seen before prompting them to do things
they never had to do before. |
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same anymore, not even the weather." With three thousand
years of farming tradition in this region it created some fear.
A breach that caused us all to laugh was when we discovered
that "Grandpa" had but on an extra hat to protect
his head from the effects of the sun. It made me laugh again
as the image came to life again in this geometric exploration.
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The Jewels
They are just what they seem to be. Little objects studded
with "Jewels" created simply to delight.
Children usually understand these pieces better than adults
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