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Many years ago the sculptor Augusta Rodin said, "Art is contemplation." I grew up thinking the same thing. I didn't know there was anything else. However I have by now learned better. If that statement was true a century ago, in Rodin's age, it is not anymore. Or mostly not true anyway. Here in the 21st century most art I come across is not contemplative. In this, the Age of The Glance, when all one's visual resources are so insistently called upon just to function in the driving of cars and the sorting process required to deal with the fast moving images of television, computers, and the ubiquity of advertisements, art may be valuable in other ways, as "statements" of one sort or another, but it is usually a-contemplative. It tends not to be conducive to deep and serious spiritual attention. Contemplative art can still be sought out, of course, and discovered in the nooks and crannies of our busy world, for anyone who has a mind to look. So I offer my work, which is not intended to be taken in at a glance, but to be engaged with a quiet eye.
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