Glyphs
Several years ago I looked through some of my son’s discarded high school notebooks hoping to catch
a glimpse of his inner world. I discovered pages of exquisite, tiny geometrical drawings sandwiched between
lecture notes, sprinkled in margins and crammed edge
to edge on back covers. Created in the unselfconscious
state typical of doodlers, the shapes seemed to represent a secret, indecipherable language.
As I looked at the doodles, I realized that they could be cryptograms, geometric diagrams, hieroglyphs, or pictographs.
I incorporate these iconic shapes as compositional elements in my paintings and as starting points for my wall sculptures.
The viewer can walk into a dimensional
space where the symbols spin, float or twirl. Some of my pieces are doors,
others windows. They are all portals. I continue to use these symbols because they are a joyous and mysterious language
that is somehow both deeply personal and universal.