Intersections

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The first drawings in this series were begun during a study trip to France and Italy. The trip’s purpose was to examine the Western idea of Classical Beauty and its manifestations in Roman ruins, Romanesque and Gothic architecture. While traveling I drew details and began to study the underlying geometry of the structures. Upon my return to the studio, I began pairing the images with new drawings of animals and common objects, looking for intersections or relationships between images. The pairings developed as visual meditations on the mathematical underpinnings of design; visual or structural affinities; or suggestions of conceptual connections. The paired drawings are visual riddles with no single answer. The quotes neither explain nor title the images, but rather provide an invitation to contemplation. This group of prints explore a tiny portion of the wealth of images that surround us. Details of European cathedrals have been enriched by pairings with images made during our 4 years in Thailand – exploring similarities and differences in visual cultures.

The images not only describe actual objects, but also represent the physical pleasure of drawing – the interaction of ink, pen, paper and quiet time. They are a visible manifestation of a process of observation and reflection through which I am looking for relationships – between nature and the human world; and the world of art and that of mathematics.

The drawings are printed on Stonehenge 100% rag paper by Modern Printers of Fairbault, Minnesota. Each print is then hand-colored by the artist.

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“The powers of the universe find many images – tree, rose, lotus, pomegranate…in which to show themselves.” - Roberto Calasso
“Every creature of this earth is like a picture or a book…” – Alain de Lille
“…at the end, every Enigma finds its explanation according to the laws of the Realistic.” - Umberto Eco
“To all swift things for swiftness did I sue; clung to the whistling mane of every wind.” - Frances Thompson
“History is only a catalog of the forgotten.” - Henry Adams
“The smoothness of the stone is the story of many waters.” - Kenneth Patton
“Must time and tides forever run….” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Chinese sage Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly.” - Joseph Campbell
“The beautiful comes about, little by little, through many numbers.” - Pythagorus
“To know the universe itself as a road – as many roads – as roads for traveling souls.” - Walt Whitman
“The building is the shell which encloses this space.” - John James
“The line is that which has only extension.” - Euclid
“Ancient of Days.” - Anonymous
“One should not take outward beauty for reality.” - Ching Hao
“Out of the stars we have come, up from time.” - Robert Weston
“Old words are adequate for all.” - Auguste Rodin
“But memory endures longer than action.” - Roberto Calasso
“God was the great geometer…” - John James
“What is required of us is the recognition of the frontiers between the centuries. And to take heart: to cross over.” - Archibald Macleish
“Here birds are alike with the mountain light, And the mind of man touches peace in a pool, And a thousand sounds are quieted By the breathing of a temple-bell.” - Chang Chien
“But texts are not everything. The monument itself will reveal some of its secrets to those who know how to seek them.” - Yves Delaporte
“The figure such as the idea requires.” - Alain de Lille
“The cathedral is an embarrassment to Reason, which fears, on entering it, having to admit the existence of the sacred.” - Francois Cali
“An infinite expectation of the dawn.” - Henry David Thoreau
“Geometry, like music, is man’s approach to the Divine.” - John James
“Time is infinitely just and wise.” - Auguste Rodin
“Add nothing, except just what the patterns demand.” - Christopher Alexander
“Writing meaning into their work through geometry.” - John James
“Appearances are often deceiving.” - Aesop
“We live not by things, but by the meaning of things.” - Antoine de St.-Exupery