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My work is an ongoing exploration of
natural and manmade materials as I make connections
between art and science, creating series of artworks
that emphasize color and beauty in Nature's physical
systems. Inspired by patterns, color, oxidation,
life, and decay in physical, geological, astronomical,
and biological fields of scientific study and
observation, I focus on the material aspects of these
events and how best to convey them for my viewers.
Workshops with internationally known artists John Cage,
Jiro Okura, and Ray Kass involved spontaneous or ordered
(I Ching) methods of allowing natural elements to guide
and create the art. This spontaneous way with
nature and my work in Particle Physics in Japan
influenced a 'Zen" approach in my own work, accepting
Nature's way with materials.
My recent projects involve paintings
that allow Nature to create the image in its processes,
sculptures influenced by these paintings that depict
psychological and social behavior theorems and the
possibility of new species interpreted through form and
color, the hidden particles and waves underlying the
spectrum of light utilized by human vision, and
expressive color and form shown in the feathers of bird
species, also responding to mans' relationship with
theses creatures.
My paintings make use of organic
materials that are vulnerable to the touch and the
physical processes in the elements, as they are in their
place in Nature. Every action creates a reaction.
Sculptures can be scratched or small pieces may someday
fall off, inviting the collector to intervene and
participate in its re-attachment and re-creation.
All these works confront the ephemerality of life.
Like human sensitivity and emotion that theorems of
color and form intimate, the paintings and sculptures
are delicate, but there is beauty and strength in that
fragility, just as there is beauty, strength and
fragility in our existence with nature.
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