The Spiritual Beat: Rhythms & Patterns Art Space Gallery Fresno City College March 2012
This work is born in
Quiet … and Solitude
This quiet space is, however, Alive with
Movement – Rhythms – Patterns…
The repetitious
Turning of the potter’s wheel…
Of wedging clay…
Of throwing out clay slabs –
over and over and over again
to make them thinner.
The repetitious
Chopping and beating of plant fibers…
Of dipping the mold
into the vat of fresh paper pulp
The repetitious and rhythmic
shaking –
rocking the mold back and forth
to form a sheet of paper.
– Clay, Fibers, Wood, Metal, and Glass –
Work in these Traditional Medias
combine Form & Content with Function,
The work requires practice through Repetition.
And this repetition
Calls up cycles in Nature and
Opens a crack in one’s sense of time to
Reveal rhythms of Spirit,
Of Breath,
Of Balance,
Of Connectivity,
Of…Aaah