Thresholds

The Thresholds series—including the Oracle series (2025–ongoing) and the Sarcophagus series (2026-ongoing) is an evolving body of work that investigates the relationship between physical form, consciousness, ritual, and hidden systems of knowledge. They inhabit the shifting and often ambiguous boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and architecture, challenging the fault lines that traditionally distinguish and separate artistic forms, and slipping free of the very categories that seek to contain them. Many of the works are protean in nature, or conceived to become so, capable of assuming different configurations as wall-based constructions, floor-based sculptural forms, and environmental installations and architecture, with each manifestation revealing new relationships between physical form, space, perception, and energetic presence.

Like the earlier Plato’s Forms series, these works continue an inquiry into forms that function as “power forms”—whose force derives not from rational explanation but from direct perception, and psycho-spiritual, and archetypal resonance. They explore the capacity of line, color, abstract form, geometry, and material presence to serve as vehicles of transformation and contemplative experience. They investigate how forms may express and embody psychic and energetic states, functioning simultaneously as aesthetic objects and visual transmissions.

These works are deeply informed by the mystical and symbolic traditions underlying both Eastern and Western art and spirituality, including Tantric yantras, mandalas, Native American sand painting, sacred geometry, the Mystery Religions of Classical Antiquity, alchemical diagrams, devotional icons, and modernist abstraction. They also draw inspiration from architectural ruins, temples, shrines, reliquaries, and ceremonial environments in which physical structure becomes a container for expanded perception and metaphysical encounter.

Many of the works manifest as wall-based fabric constructions that subsequently unfold into larger sculptural and environmental forms, suggesting the evolution of an essential idea to object to sacred space. The architectural environments emerging from the series—such as the ongoing Vesta and Asclepius projects—extend the language of the wall works into immersive contemplative structures that function simultaneously as installation, shrine, meditation chamber, and symbolic architecture. These environments are conceived as experiential spaces that blur distinctions between artwork, ritual object, and sacred site.

Both the Oracle series and the Sarcophagus series highlight the shifting tensions between color and line, color and form, texture and shape, figure and ground, intentionality and unintentionality, mass and energy, presence and absence, personal mythology and collective archetype. Through 2 and 3-dimensional geometric forms, suspended cords, intersecting planes, tensile surfaces, and radiant color, the works create dynamic tensions between material and immaterial presence. As viewers move around, wander through, and linger within these forms, time itself emerges as a 4th dimension, revealing the work not in a single moment of perception but through an unfolding experience of movement, duration, and discovery. They serve as visual koans—forms that resist fixed interpretation while evoking states of contemplation, mystery, and expanded awareness.

Ultimately, the Thresholds series is an inquiry into the hidden structures that underlie perception and experience. The works function as portals into dynamic stillness, presence, and energetic transmission, inviting viewers into encounters with the unseen dimensions embedded within form itself.