The sculptures, masks, and photographs are an ensemble of
archetypal themes--- structural
elements of the psyche---in contrasting formats, reflecting and amplifying each
other, reconnecting the split polarities our cultural habits have
established. The art's aim is to
advance consciousness by bringing the unconscious into relationship with the
conscious, the individual psyche to the collective, the Masculine principle to
the Feminine principle, ideas to the body.
The
endeavor calls for its own language to accommodate the subject. I form recycled newspaper into large,
thick sheets which when shaped, speak with a distinct voice, sagging, rippling,
and wrinkling. It uses significant
psychic patterns, body gesture, abstraction, the primitive and natural,
exaggeration, distortion, juxtaposition, and photo documents to encompass the
wilderness of its topic. By the
visual asset of sensual all-at-once impact, the work suggests a psychic space
where the individual and collective, masculine and feminine, mortal and
immortal, are not separate or denied, and by this movement of mind points to a
renewed public space.