What’s up with the circles? A fascination with abstraction, geometry, visual rhythms, and the energy of color has been with me since I first dipped a brush into paint. And although I have ventured into realism and pictorial images at times, I always return to the “Orphist”* ideal of the power of shape and color to express energy frequencies and a kind of visual music.
This series began as “the insomnia drawings”. Jet lag and world politics found me lying sleepless in bed, my eyes shut hoping for drowsiness. But instead I began to notice patterns and colors on the interior of my eyelids, or possibly in my mind’s eye, It’s hard to know exactly, but the flickering of light and tiny movements inspired some daily sketches and visual inquiries.
*Orphism, also known as Orphic Cubism or Simultaneism, was an abstract art movement that emerged in the early 1910s. It was pioneered by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and František Kupka, and named by French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. Orphism was a Cubist-influenced style that emphasized light, color, and abstraction to create rhythmic, musical compositions.
