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Cloud Icons    mixed media    24"x24"x1"    2012

A series of nine panels incorporating photography and screenprinting,  counterposing science, math, cultural, corporate and religious icons on a neutral setting of sky and clouds.  The imagery is similar, but each explores different subject matter in different ways.

For example: the first one,
#18, is a study of symmetry; both borne through man’s mind, but leading to vastly different ends.  The background reveals the architectural contours of the Mahayana Buddhist temple of Borobudur in Indonesia, an archetypal “World-Mountain” style temple that devotees climb, with different levels to symbolize their journey to enlightenment.  It is designed like a mandala, whose symmetry and balance of elements represents a macrocosm of the universe.  This background image is capped by a golden modern mandala, the gene sequence for protein, the building block of all life as we know it. 

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