New Work for the CORE Show

UMBILICUSES.



What could be more core than these body parts?


The link to our mother, and the entry point of nourishment from mother to fetus during the first months of life.

The vestige of it remains through our lives- outie, innie, lint catcher, erotic zone, reference point for locating the dan tian, the sacral chakra, the diaphragm, the breath, the belt buckle.











Everyone has one and they are all different.


















CORE has another meaning that I explored in clay. The cosmological meaning refers to the universal laws that govern the planets, the stars, the novas and other celestial forms. It also refers to the origins of the universe and how it keeps growing, evolving and devolving from the genesis with the Big Bang (a theory, I wonder if it's correct) to the formation of and fiery death of stars.

I created these simple images on square plates from the idea of energy as it is expressed in our universe. At the core is energy which radiates outward. It has gravitational force, it has heat, light. I am not a scientist, nor do I know the words for what I am trying to say.

It is a simple design for a possibly very complex system of forces.

And it also relates formalistically to the umbilicuses. As above so below.

Each plate is footed and is signed with "CoRE 2014." All umbilicuses (6) and plates (8) will be for sale at the art reception:

CORE ART SHOW
Exhibit on view for the month of May

RECEPTION

 May 8, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Thomas Sweet Shop Cafe
1325 Route 206, Skillman, NJ 08558

in the Montgomery Shopping Center, 
next to the Montgomery Movie Theater.

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