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Beautiful Void: Entropy
mirror, glass, artist made mirror, brass, solder
42 x 42 x 12 inches
2015
Beautiful Void: Entropy (side)
mirror, glass, artist made mirror, brass, solder
42 x 42 x 12 inches
2015
Beautiful Void: Big Bang II
mirror, glass, brass, solder
42 x 42 x 12 inches
2015
Beautiful Void: Big Bang II (side)
mirror, glass, brass, solder
42 x 42 x 12 inches
2015
Beautiful Void: Holy Void II
mirror, glass, brass, solder, patina
42 x 42 x 9 inches
2015
Beautiful Void: Sky
mirror, glass, brass, solder, patina
42 x 42 x 9 inches
2017
Beautiful Void: Holy Void
mirror, glass, solder, brass
42 x 42 x 9 inches
2014
Beautiful Void: Holy Void
mirror, glass, solder, brass
42 x 42 x 9 inches
2014
Beautiful Void:  Big Bang
mirror, glass, solder, brass
42 x 42 x 12 inches
2014


The Beautiful Void series represents the 3 organizing belief systems of our time—science, spirituality (religion) and change. I began to view change as a belief system after reading Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower in which the lead character, the daughter of a preacher, creates a new religion based on the belief that God is change when her father’s Christian ideologies fail to hold up to the reality of the post apocalyptic world in which she lives. The works in the triptych are based on mandalas or halos. At the center of each work in the triptych is a mirrored void or portal, based on the geometry of Islamic muquarnas—emblematic both as non-representational guides for one’s contemplation of the divine and as an advanced geometry (science) that came late to the western world.