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Icons of the Environmental Age (Global Icon)
To me icons are visuals that intensify meaning to the point of transcendence. They are doorways to what is most essential to a culture or a time. Pictures of the Earth seen from Space are the first icons of the environmental age: arresting meditations on the beauty and fragility of our planet. Longing for additional icons of a new ecology I have produced the following works.
Buddha in Honey
Buddha in Honey resulted from my experimentations with honey as an artistic medium. I followed a sudden impulse to submerge the sculpture of the Indian saint in honey and documented the result in a series of slides. The sublime master of the inner life and the exalted substance of nature combined into a visual meditation on a new ecology that integrates inner and outer, soul and nature.
eARTh Art sign
The eARTh sign stands for transformation of the whole earth into an artwork. It is a metamorphosis of the Celtic cross (the cross with the circle) and for me holds strong Rosicrucian resonances.
Honeyclock
The Honeyclock was my contribution to the time-emit exhibit at the Moore's building in Fremantle in 2001. The Honeyclock is a metamorphosis of the medieval hourglass into a time-piece that measures time as a flowing rhythmic quality, rather than a quantitative accumulation of separate parts.
Worlds of Colour
Worlds of Colour - digitally reversed coloured pencil drawings, a visual meditation on the diversity of the world and on the balance achieved through opposites.