Works on aluminum

these images are comments on  the virus, The dividing of our country, the existential threat to our planet.and my own grateful place in all of that

The aluminum reflects the surroundings in the same way that this work reflects back and abstracts current events.

I think about the Animi Mundi; World Soul, an intrinsic connection between all living things and the planet they live on, rather like the soul and the body.

The reality is messier than that and there is anger here too.

Work on aluminum

No crowds of people go to Ethiopia. I think that’s why I loved it.

We celebrated Timkat, the new year baptism/ celebration in Adis Ababba

The three places that were most interesting to me, because they represent three very different cultures, were the Animists, tribal, in the south,the Muslims in the east, and the Christians pretty much everywhere else, (the first African Christian nation; remember Prester John).

Fez and Marrakesh were amazing, but what really soothed my soul and made me happy were Chefchouen and the desert