Retrospective

Gathered in this gallery are examples of paintings from the various periods of my artistic production, as detailed below:

Mosaic Period: 1972 – 1983, Catalog Nos. 1 - 91
The paintings of this earliest period deal with mythological, literary and religious themes expressed in a “mosaic” technique that uses colored tiles of different geometric shapes to represent the various figurative elements of the paintings, following a suggestion in Plato’s Timaeus, where different geometric shapes are assigned to each of the Four Elements to account for their respective physical properties.

Dasein: 1984 – 1986, Catalog Nos. 92 – 122
The term is borrowed from Heidegger and literally means “being there”.  I liked it for its being an aural pun for “design”, and because it expresses the position and role of human consciousness within Nature.  Typically, a work from this period began with the draft of an underlying geometrical “matrix” grid (interpreted as a two-dimensional time-space continuum), “a dance floor for divine accidents” (Nietzsche), and letting fall upon it stencils of alphabetical elements which were then traced where they fell.  According to where they happened to fall and cross the squares or rectancles of the grid, they were subsequently painted in different tones and colors, to suggest their progressive birth, concrescence and annihilation within the matrix.  The letters of the alphabet function as elements of consciousness, since they are not found in nature, but they are here used for the first time as interesting and intriguing forms in their own right.  In later paintings and periods they will acquire meaning as symbols and eventually become words and texts fully integrated with the images of a painting.