Island Series

A sensitivity to the connection between emerging symbols and deeply felt concepts has enabled me to express another dichotomy in Human Nature...my "Island" concept:

No/every Man is an Island.

As I pondered the symbolism inherrent in the circle--wholeness, completeness, joy, I felt that a broken circle could imply all of the opposites. Thus the circle itself could express a state of Being. By giving each circle its "own space"--a surrounding geometric area--with which to interact with with other "places" in the composition I am endeavoring to express that dicotomy of need/fear deep within all of us...a profound need to interact with others, to matter, to banish loneliness, to be loved, to not be alone on the sea of Life..yet an equally strong need to remain uniquely one's Self...not an atoll submerged by the waves of Life...but an Island gleaming in the sun.