The Gifting Dance. 2019.

Painting: Ink, Black & White, Metal, Acrylic on Bronze, Canvas. approx 54″X48″

This work expresses a spiritual geography. It is inspired by the eruption of subterranean magma as a metaphor for the experience of an epiphany. The three symbols that revolve around the bursting volcano (or equally a cut tree) symbolize different ways that epiphanies manifests: through text, sounds and sight, and the manner of being. These are symbols for which meaning has agglomerated, and which the viewer can reinterpret.

The work is made with an acrylic background that was done by watering down paint and allowing it to flow. I rotated the canvas adjusting with the shifting atmospheres until the right point was reached. The images are painted in India ink and the gold circles are applied brass leaf.