Category: Vortex

“Vortex Box” 1982

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16 1/2” x 24”. Unknown location. one of my many painting boxes. The figure and the horse is a collage of an image taken from a beautiful screen in The Cleveland Museum of Art titled “Horses & Their Grooms”.  The Vortex is taken from DuChamp and I use it for its intrinsic feeling of a […]

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“Vortex 2” 1999

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Charcoal, conte crayon, and collage.  72″ x 60″.  Collection of Patrice and Herb Miller. The choice to use a vortex was inspired by DuChamp’s “Large Glass” and the idea within the zietgeist of the “The Event Horizon”,  and how that subject is brought home to Planet Earth today in the familiar form of global warming.  […]

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“Vortex” 1998

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Oil and collage on canvas. 84″ x 96″.  Collection of Giorgio Furioso I was listening to an interview with John Polkinghorn.  He was speaking about the places where creative events are most likely to appear.  To paraphrase he said that novelty occurs in situations where chaos and order are in close proximity.  He gave a […]

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