Middle, Late, and Present Saints

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Middle, Late, and Present Saints

In 1992, after completing the forty-plus Saint Helices watercolors, I imagined that the idea would eventually crystallize in the form of one last, great, Saint Helices painting. However, the more I focused on finishing the series, the faster new ideas for the Saint Helices composition would arrive. I have a theory that the Saint Helices composition operates as an artistic composite of visual, aesthetic, and art historical antecedents of forms and concepts for which there is no single pictorial solution. I have summoned and allied all of my previous experimentation with different styles of painting from the academic to the completely abstract for the purpose of fully investigating the Saint Helices composition. All of the Saint Helices compositions are both, formal abstract compositions, as well as, narrative paintings which employ allusions to wave-form energy--light wave frequencies, or, gravitational wave frequencies (gravitons) for example--as a visual metaphor/personification of celestial and cosmological phenomenon traversing the point of interface between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space as we perceive it. I visualize this place as an aesthetic/philosophical/scientific "frontier" where forms of human consciousness and intelligence intermingle with forms of cosmic consciousness and intelligence. To some this may sound like mystification, or worse, mysticism--fair enough, but respectfully, far from the truth. The images and themes that I am presenting here are unprecedented in terms of approach and scope in the realms of popularly recognizable and critically validated contemporary art imagery and ensuing parameters of profundity. My most sincere conviction is that the Saint Helices series of works are a visual construction of everything that interests me, and that I am capable of knowing about visual art, art history, philosophy, religion, and science, coupled with elements of particular modes and mysteries of existence and perception. My primary aim has been to make images which have their own voice. I feel that I have succeeded, and continue to succeed, in that pursuit.

Middle Saints