Geometric Musings

Passages

40x30”. Mixed Media on canvas. 

There are passages where the land ends and the water begins. These paths lead us to a freedom that only the sea can provide to keep our souls alive as we grow old.

Magical Lines

Acrylics and monotype collage on panel.  24x24x1.5”

The linear designs used by Berber and Tuareg craftsmen once had magical significance.

Straight lines represented honesty and tranquility, oblique lines meant sadness, wavy lines were for indecision, points meant firmness, triangles were perfection, and curves stood for the allegory of human life. If symbols last forever, I vote for tranquility in these days of world turmoil.

Sorrow and the Siege of Mariupol

Mixed media on canvas. 40x30”

I love ancient ruins. They remind us how fleeting this life is. But I never expected to see so many modern ruins in my lifetime. Sorrow? Tears? Despair? No words can describe the senseless destruction and killing in the now destroyed city of Mariupol.  

Oasis

36x36”. Mixed media on canvas.

Raqs Sharqi, Dance of the Orient

40x30”.  Mixed media on canvas. 

According to some, this belly dance is a search for harmony between body, mind and spirit.  I like that some of the movements imitate waves melting into one another, and that all the fluid ripples and watery motions tell an intricate story about the meaning of the music.