ARTIST’S STATEMENT

NSC 2002 INTERVENED BY HAND OFFERING and CASCADING TALISMANS THROUGH NSC 94-06 are two works from of the series OFFERINGS TO THE NSC

- These digital outputs are combinations of my sculptures (called Liminal Offerings) with the covers of the United States National Security Council Strategy statements of 1994, 2002 and 2006. The transparent resin sculptures (half one image and half another) are my talismans, reliquaries, my philosopher’s eggs, my touchstones. By intersecting and penetrating the NSC papers and the “offerings” with each other I attempt to bring redemptive powers to these doctrines. The interposition of the offerings with the NSC covers resuscitates the wiser, generous, more liberal aspects of our national security goals and redeems the corrosive, selfish and short-sighted policies and practices.

LIMINAL OFFERINGS (TVD and EAGLE 2) is an exploration of a discourse on “liminality”: the notion of sensory boundaries and thresholds across psychological, philosophical and spiritual borders. The resin “offerings” depict forms that are half one image and half another. They take the form of talismans and devotional reliquaries, while the physical property of transparency (simultaneously seeing the imagery depicted and the space behind) gives added significance to ideas of boundaries, illusionary space and spiritual transcendence. This installation is a meditation of my personal definition on the subject of the “liminal”.

 

The mylar paintings ORBIS INVOLITO and GRADUS CAELUMI utilize painterly techniques based on skewed and extreme perspectives and optical illusions. The painting process, which employs intentional brush strokes, incidental drips and smears, is counteracted by the use of reflective mylar as the painting surface.  The viewer simultaneously one sees the imagery depicted and their own reflection and the refection of the installation space. The specific imagery symbolizes boundaries, illusionary space and spiritual transcendence.