Romantic Matter and other Theories
Romantic Matter and other Theories Gallery
Scientific examinations of the natural world are often filled with poetic metaphor and analogy to common human experience. Mirrored in the quantum makeup of the cosmos, are the nuances of human relationship and perspective — dark matter makes up most of the universe, yet eludes scientists and can only be identified by its effect on other matter. Transposing such reflections into a visual context became irresistible, poetic play. With amused, reverent fascination for humans’ impulse and basic need to understand and explain to themselves the origin and inner workings of grand things like the universe and the brain, I pursued a non-scientist interest in neuroscience, quantum theories on the structure of the universe, dark matter, particles & waves, oscillating strings and so on… to see where the metaphors would lead.
Exotic Forms of Dark Matter
Color: Intaglio
15 x 15 inches
Self Organizing Lines
Color: Intaglio
7 x 12 inches
Modern Roses
Color: Intaglio
16 x 15 inches
Perfume
Color: Intaglio
20 x 18 inches
Particle Garden
Color: Intaglio, chine colle
11 x 15 inches
Quanta Somonka
Color: Intaglio
11 x 15 inches
Suite for Strings & Particles
Color: 2Intaglio
15 x 15 inches
Bouquet (Waves / Particles)
Color: Intaglio
15 x 15 inches
Wave / Particle Love Poem
Color: Intaglio
10 x 18 inches
Flatland Minuet
Color: Intaglio
5 x 10 inches
Effervescence
Color: Intaglio, embossing, watercolor
10 x 10 inches
Efflorescence
Color: Intaglio, embossing, watercolor
10 x 10 inches
Quantum Poetics for a French Marigold
Color: Intaglio, embossing
10 x 10 inches
Einfühlung: Gray Matter Poems
Color: Intaglio, watercolor
15 x 18 inches
Land / Field Studies
Printmaking has always been my primary medium. The surface created by the intaglio plate intrigues me as ink is pressed into the fibers of the paper at different depths. There is the aspect of printmaking that doesn’t allow the work to be fully seen until it is printed… one moves along through the process with an element of blind faith, intuition and some intention, but also a degree of uncertainty about the final product.
From the beginning, my images have sprung from reflections (my own, or others) on the natural world and examinations of things at their essence that consider the metaphor, analogy and connection to human sensation and experience.
The landscape with all of its forms and components, though ever changing, continues to be an abiding meditation. My interest for this body of work was in generating a simultaneous sense of the fixed and the fleeting with the paper itself being a unified field. Color, shape and mark, (both printed and embossed), are used to indicate movement, while shallow compressed pictorial space functions as a visual metaphor for immutability.
These prints were a reply to the resonant experience of living on a cattle farm surrounded by mountains, observing the cyclical life of the fields.
From the beginning, my images have sprung from reflections (my own, or others) on the natural world and examinations of things at their essence that consider the metaphor, analogy and connection to human sensation and experience.
The landscape with all of its forms and components, though ever changing, continues to be an abiding meditation. My interest for this body of work was in generating a simultaneous sense of the fixed and the fleeting with the paper itself being a unified field. Color, shape and mark, (both printed and embossed), are used to indicate movement, while shallow compressed pictorial space functions as a visual metaphor for immutability.
These prints were a reply to the resonant experience of living on a cattle farm surrounded by mountains, observing the cyclical life of the fields.
