About

Curating my own work is a fearsome task – my creative process is so arbitrary – a request, a suggestion, sets me doing studies which are not part of my inner feelings or ideas, but suddenly seem to take a surge or a dive into something that interests me….and fades….then a bit of manipulation starts me on another exploration, which may branch out into something totally unexpected – and I jump back and forth and outwards – some things seem to work, others to fail – but when I go back after a time to the failures, and rearrange, manipulate, combine – suddenly exciting things emerge – and lead me to make new combinations – sometimes a detail catches my attention and leads to a whole new series of explorations.

My Story

Obviously, not everything works for me, but I still keep the really bad ones for a time when they will be used in total or part for something that does develop into something that speaks, or shouts, or whispers or sings.

I pray a lot for guidance, and I do feel hashgasha pratit very strongly when something works – a special siata d'Shmaya….nothing happens just by chance. Sometimes I am very aware of a sequential development, sometimes I only realize one between works very far apart in time and apparent intention after a relatively long time.

We have glimpses of life's threads every now and then,

until suddenly a clear pattern emerges, only to take a new uncertain turn…reality is perceived differently, changing perception opens new dimensions of the truth –

Our physical limitations cannot grasp its expansiveness in more than glimpses as our understanding waxes and dims with experience….people tend to imagine that there must be numerous truths which can change – but that is because truth is so great that our minds cannot encompass all that it contains….it is not the truth that changes, only our fleeting grasp of aspects of it….

A lot of my work is a reaction to circumstance, a means of working through it – but generally it comes to fruition best after the event, and then expands….emotionally, intellectually, visually – not necessarily in that order.

My Work

My work is also very closely related to the type of music I listen to while working. The energy, emotion and flow of the music often play an intrinsic part of the creative process. Often things in life which seem logical and convincing turn out to be nonsense, and what seem to be nonsense are later seen to be authentic and logical….but context and perception need adjustment.

Changes in perception are coloured by emotion, which lead to different manners or styles of depiction. Thus fluctuations in technique can be traced back and forth through similar or contrasting situations, with intellectually reflective periods in between, causing startling changes or repetitions coloured by experience.I will need to develop a thread in my haphazardly created work, some of which does represent a theme of educating towards a better world, but so disconnected in style and presentation; although certain things do occur in a kind of progressional repetitive way, albeit it with sudden stops and change in direction....