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CIRCULAR MEMORY: THE LOGIC OF NATURE Dialogue between Objects I imagine that my assemblages enjoy limitless probabilities while they are emerging. Probabilities increase and decrease as I add or subtract objects or change their positions, with every change comes a new dialogue. When in fact, my personal experience and sensibilities are determining the outcomes. Complimentarity (the logic of nature), a principle described by physicist Niels Bohr, discovers wave-particle dualism and new relationships between parts and wholes in physics and biology. Dichotomous objects or forces that compliment or oppose each other become something greater as a result of the union of the parts. No collection of parts, no matter how arbitrarily large will reveal or define the whole, but bringing just the right pieces together allows us a glimpse at a something greater. Complimentary allows a collection of objects to reveal their common truth. This truth exists in our world-constructing minds. The resulting dialogue in art reveals not only academic concepts; form, texture, hue, value, composition, and utilitarian function, but also the greater, archetypal dialogue; light versus dark, weightlessness versus oppression, form versus idea. The ultimate-truth is simply that one object/idea does not exist without another to demonstrate its complimentary nature. Once complimentarity is realized the sculpture is free to exist, as a concept rather than a collection of objects. My installation exhibit at Phillips last November, Propensity for Repetition, was an exploration of a quote by Kiki Smith, Repetition is Spiritual. I examined it from the evolutionary biology approach, as well as, the spiritual approach, realizing that our history is spiritual, that indeed it is as simple as; we are the summation of those simple repetitions. We are the breathing, the walking, the observing the sunrise, sun set, the seasons, the changing of the tides, the migration of the birds, the replication of all the species, and the living and the dying. This repetition, however mundane it may appear at times is our spirituality, revealing there are no difference between what we do/witness and our spirituality. The sum of our actions and thoughts transcends our own bodies and minds and mingles with the greater consciousness. Similarly, in my Tai Chi practice, the practitioner is the conduit between earth and sky. All energy flows back and forth from sky to earth, from earth to sky, through the fragile bodies on earth. We are the links between the mundane world and the spiritual world. My practice has become seeing the mundane as spiritual and the spiritual as the mundane. This assemblage is a meditation on the continuity of existence entitled, Circular Memory. On the floor, a massive coiled rope winds around an illuminated orb, only at the end does the rope divert from its circularity, the beginning of an unraveling. All my work whether installation, painting or assemblage, flows from one exhibit to another, in a long stream of consciousness dialogue. The Spiritual is the Mundane / Mundane is the Spiritual.
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