Center
This year I have been printing about, painting, carving and thinking about "center" as concept and source for imagery. This is not a new subject for me to explore but a recognition that all of the stories I am drawn to, make art about, have at core the search for center. Within mythic story, center is generally a tribally circumscribed place, a point of connection between sky and earth where cardinal directions meet. Whether that center be Delphi or Delos, the Temple Mount or the Black Hills, it is the same symbolic center. It might be called Omphalos or Axis Mundi, Bindu or Bethyle but details and superficial observations aside it functions as the still point from which all objective reality is a manifestation. Spiritually it is the point we search from and for which we search. My image “Center” is a mixed media bas-relief, 13 x 10 in.