REPETITION IS SPIRITUAL

My work involves an ongoing question that I ask myself. When I change my consciousness, in my own time and space, does that affect the larger consciousness? Consciousness is pattern. So all I have to do to effect change is alter my own pattern.

It occurs to me one day as I am sitting on the steps of a building in NYC and watching the activity – something so simple, yet so perfect happens. I see this mundane incident as though for the first time. I really see it.

A woman runs across the street with an umbrella. She stops to kiss the man who just pulled up in a taxi and has hopped out to greet her.  That’s it!  - like a movie sequence.

I have a sudden realization.  All of reality arises just as we imagine it. Everything on the planet is perfect for us. The oxygen, temperature, circadian rhythms, food grows up out of the ground, the rain comes, fish swim in the oceans, we find other humans and form clans.  All of it originated in our minds.  Dependent Origination, the Buddhists call it. I read about it, but I can only make an academic connection until this moment. The mundane and the extraordinary are indeed one in the same and they both come from our consciousness.
           
To hold all of this reality in place we must remember and repeat.  We are afraid to let go of any little piece of the vision for fear of it evaporating.  We hold it with our expectations.
Quantum Physics describes the many worlds theory, where infinitesimally small particles manifest themselves repeatedly for just a fraction of time in space, if they are not called into reality by thought they disappear. In Greek the word Form means Idea.

REPETITION is an exploration into the primal process of repetition and recognition of pattern. Repetition is spiritual. Our social evolution is woven pattern. We are repetition, as evidenced by our evolutionary biology. I am intrigued with the interdependent pattern of dichotomous forces; good and bad; compassion and greed; chaos and order. Thus thoughts and actions, altruistic or fear-based, weave our existence into history. History is repetition. War. Greed. Ignorance. Peace. Generosity. Grace. Art gives us the perfect forum to examine our pattern, getting it onto the canvas or integrated into the sculpture, so that it can be observed. This way of working allows me to see that my own pattern of repetition is the universal pattern.
           
My exhibit entitled Repetition is an exploration into the primal process of repetition and recognition of pattern. Our social evolution is a woven pattern. We are repetition, as evidenced by evolutionary biological history. I am intrigued with the interdependent pattern of dichotomous forces of good and evil, compassion and brutality, right hand and left hand. Our thoughts and actions, altruistic or fear-based, weave our existence into history. History is repetition. War. Greed. Ignorance. Peace. Generosity. Grace. Art provides the perfect forum to examine our patterns, and by getting them onto canvas or integrated into sculpture, we can observe them. This way of working allows me to see that my own pattern of repetition is a universal pattern. 

I draw on science, spirituality and utilitarian objects to broaden the scope of my art, making it timeless. I see myself as artist, scientist, and perceiver. Color, form, light, sound, texture and volume of objects leads me through an investigation of the dialogue between the spiritual and the mundane aspects of everyday life.

REPETITION is an encounter with the order found in linear, as well as, non-linear systems such as wave, wind, cloud and flame. It also focuses on repetition as the source of ancient memory, the living and dying of a myriad of souls and that which is continuous through all lives. Understanding the primordial satisfaction of finding reoccurrence in everything we see and experience is what has sustained humans since our beginning. The sun rising, the tide repeating, the seasons returning, the breathing of our bodies, the simple act of walking, all have sustained our trust and given us comfort over millennium that we exist outside our bodies by being integrated into the fabric of (time and space.