Plato’s Form series

These “dimensional/dynamic” paintings continue the direction of my earlier work investigating forms used as power objects which derive their power from the irrational—i.e. “magic.”  They are mystical forms, religious icons, mystic diagrams, relics, magical forms.  They are paintings deconstructed into their essential elements—line and color attempting to break from each other—and evoke essential states. They comment on the history and relationship of art, philosophy, spiritual practice, and healing, and manifest the “healing” power inherent in all forms.  These works derive their inspiration from Hindu yantras (power diagrams) and the mystical orientation of western art from the ancient “Mystery Schools” of Classical Antiquity through Mannerism through Mondrian.  

These works teeter on the brink of painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation and question the categorization of forms.  They embody a dialectic of illusive opposites in dynamic tension—color and form, color and line, texture and shape, figure and ground, intentionality and unintentionality, mass and energy, presence and absence—serving as visual koans.