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Now available
from your bookstore or from Red
Wheel/Wesiers Books at 1.207.363.4393
Visual
art, such as painting and sculpture, has its own kind of language. It
reaches us in a way that words cannot, for words cannot be literally
translated into visual form. Art is not only the pictorial description
of something beautiful. As defined in this book, art is a visual description
in a language of shape, color and form, presenting the viewer with a
dialogue different from that found in words. It is a graphic manifestation
of the way we think and feel.
Newton
& Taylor, co-editors
Published
by Oneiros
For as long as I remember, I have been looking for a way to give shape and form to spirit, a way to touch the nature of the divine. As a child, I would spend many silent hours in my grandfather's garden lying on the earth and looking at the flowers and plants. I would watch the shadows of the trees move and change on the lawn, observe a baby bird learn to fly and sometimes I thought I could see a flower open. In those moments I began to confirm my suspicion that there was something beyond that which I could see, and although invisible and intangible, I could sense that unseen presence, know somehow that it was connected to the place of spirit and the divine in me.
My Sculpture is made of wood carved from trees. The carved wood is found on the streets of New York City, the beaches of the Dominican Republic, the shores of Northern Minnesota, and other places. It is often assembled, several pieces put together to make the whole. It is painted, colored, often with handmade paint and gold leaf which dresses and clothes the wood, so to speak, so that the actual forms begin to develop the presence of being and of garments.
