The 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 it's "own place"---a surrounding geometric area---with which to interact with other "places" in the composition I am endeavoring to express that dichotomy 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 waved of Life . . but an Island gleaming in the sun.

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Atlantis-2

Atlantis number 2

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