This body of work came into being in the last few weeks. They are relatively small, with the smallest being 6 x 9” and the largest around 12 x 19”.

Try to give them the time and the screen size they may need to reveal themselves fully.

They represent a new iteration of my persistent (and admittedly feeble) attempt to direct our attention to the unthinkable source of all being, our only common ground.

Knowledge and thought made possible the rise of human civilization. However, their reckless extension through our persistent identification with exclusive ideologies and particular interests has isolated and turned us against each other to the point of emperiling the very survival of our species. Our conflicting cultural and personal identities make the human mind, as a whole, insensitive, and hence also unwilling, if not outright incapable, of seeing how far it has alienated itself from its source in life. In this matter, accurate perception is denied precisely by who we think we are and strive to become. We are what we suffer from, but that is not apparent unless there is a radical setting aside of the barriers set by our groups of reference and our personal experience.

Thus, the fundamental question is whether the mind can wake up to the intrinsic limitations and dangers imposed by cultural and psychological separation, and thus free itself from them.

Intelligence and love may only manifest in the absence of pervasive tribalism, sectarianism, and self-centeredness.