Location: United States
Since the early 1950’s I have been continually involved with visual arts: BA degree from Pennsylvania State University, fine arts major; MA degree from Columbia University, Teachers’ College, fine arts major; Parsons School of Design, advertising curriculum: Brooklyn Museum of Art, oil painting with Reuben Tam; extensive professional experience in textile design, packaging design graphics, corporate identity programs, and finally teaching textile/surface design graphics for industry for 22 years at the Fashion Institute of Technology (State University of New York) in New York City. While at FIT, in collaboration with a fellow faculty member, Dorothy Wolfthal, we wrote the department textbook: Textile Print Design, Fairchild Publications,1987.
In the 1970's I began to develop my own unique approach to art and the creative processes. At the core of this work are drawing meditations--images rising from the unconscious mind. With the advent of sophisticated computer and print technology I shifted from paint and brush to digital art on the computer. Inspired by Carl Jung, (the psychology of the mind), Anton Erhnesweig (the education of vision), Henry Reed (Channeling Your Higher Self), Leonardo da Vinci (on creativity), and by artists such as Hieronymous Bosch, William Blake, Odilon Redon, Giorgio Morandi to name few, I continue to explore the unconscious
mind and to draw forth MINDWORKS imagery.
What are MINDWORKS?
Carl Jung was a pioneer in the exploration of the unconscious mind. Dreams, fantasies, myths and free associations were some of his tools of exploration. Calming his mind and allowing thoughts and fantasies to rise up to consciousness were part of the process. MINDWORKS are drawing meditations, images rising from the unconscious mind.
Others have explored similar processes: Max Ernest with collage and frottage; Odilon Redon who could not abide a blank white surface, made smudges and saw a butterfly wing; Dubuffet who often began a canvas not knowing whether it would be a cow, a table or a person; Leonardo da Vinci who urged us to look at clouds and stains on the walls and read into them faces, animals and battle-scenes.
MINDWORKS are a process of discovery, art put to the service of self-realization for the artist as well as the viewer.
"All life is a meditation, in which you are contemplating the Divine. This is called true wakefulness."
~Neal Donal Walsch, Conversations with God
This work is printed on canvas, gallery-wrapped on stretchers, signed and ready to hang. Size: 20x20" Edition 1/50
http://MINDWORKSart.net/
Gallery19.html
A monkey learned to wash his sandy sweet potatoes in a stream. Soon other monkeys on the island were washing their sweet potatoes. THEN when a critical number was reached and the 'one hundredth monkey' discovered the trick, it instantly spread to the entire species no matter where they were in the world!
~Rupert Sheldrake's theory of Morphic Field Resonance
This image is printed on canvas with archival inks, researched to last 100+ years under average interior lighting. It is Gallery-Wrapped on Stretchers, Size: 20x20" signed and ready to hang. Edition 1/50
http://MINDWORKSart.net/Gallery50.html
"When witnessing the mind…you will just be aware, present, conscious; either witnessing the mind without labeling what you observe or withdrawing awareness and arising in your own stillness."
http://www.yoga-mind-control.com/witnessing-the-mind.html
This image is printed on canvas with a black wooden frame, signed and ready to hang. Size: 23.5x23.5"
http://MINDWORKSart.net/Gallery40.html
"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and lust listen. No more is needed."
~ECKHART TOLLE, Stillness Speaks
This work is matted and framed with metallic gunmetal gray and plexiglas for further protection. Edition 5/50 Size: 18.75x24.75"
http://MINDWORKSart.net/Gallery25.html
"Become not only aware of your mental activity, but also of the consciousness that is witnessing your mind-field."
http://www.yoga-mind-control.com/witnessing-the-mind.html
Edition 1/50 is printed on Canvas, gallery-wrapped on stretchers, signed and ready to hang. Size: 20x20"
http://MINDWORKSart.net/
Gallery40.html
"By knowing yourself as the awareness in which phenomenal existence happens, you become free of dependency on phenomena and free of self-seeking in situations, places, and conditions. In other words: what happens or doesn't happen is not that important anymore. Things lose their heaviness, their seriousness. A playfulness comes into life. You recognize this world as a cosmic dance, the dance of form--no more and no less."
~ECKHART TOLLE, Stillness Speaks
This work is matted, mounted, matted and framed with a gun-metal gray frame, protected with plexiglas, signed and ready to hang. Size: 18.25x25.25"
http://MINDWORKSart.net/Gallery23.html
"Sometimes…partners fix on each other at their points of mutual negativity. When you meet only at th point of poverty between you, it is as if you give birth to a ghost who would devour every shred of your affection. The blade of nothingness cuts deeply."
~JOHN O'DONOHUE, Anam Cara, a book of Celtic Wisdom
There are 4 variations of this image; this is Variation 3, Edition of 2/50. Size: 28x36" It is framed with a metallic silver frame, signed and ready to hang.
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery6.html
"The future is not altered by consciousness. Rather, all possible futures really happen! Instead of a single universe proceeding in a haphazard, consciousness-altering drunkard's walk, there are an infinite number of 'parallel universes.' all proceeding on well-ordered qwiffian flows into the future. And we are on all of those universe layers!"
~Hugh Everett III, Princeton University 1975
This image is canvas on Size: 17x17" Edition 1/50, with a black wooden frame, signed and ready to hang.
http:MINDWORKSart.net/Gallery41.html
“There is the voice in my head. Here I AM, listening to it, watching it.”
~Eckhart Tolle, The Power of NOW
This work is printed on canvas, Edition 1/50 Size: 27x27" framed with a black wooden frame, signed and ready to hang.
http://MINDWORKSart.net/
Gallery23.html
"The discovery of the Principle of Complementarity marked a change in our thinking. It taught us that our everyday senses were not to be trusted to give a total view of reality. There was always a hidden, complementary side of everything we experienced."
~FRED ALAN WOLF, Taking the Quantum Leap, 1981/89
This image is printed on canvas, Edition 1 of 50. Size: 22.5x22.5" mounted and framed with a black wooden frame. It is signed and ready to hang.
http://mindworksart.net
/Gallery43.html
"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
~RUMI
Edition 1/50, Size: 30.75x31.75" with a white mat and framed with metallic silver and plexiglas for added protection, signed and ready to hang.
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery15.html
"Mystery is at the heart of creativity.
That and surprise."
~Julia Cameron
This image is signed, matted and framed with plexiglas and a metallic silver frame, Edition 1/50. Size; 25x31.75" This print has been enhanced with acrylic paint added, making it unique within the edition.
http://www.mindworksart.net
/Gallery20.html
"Accepting 'life is difficult'…it then becomes no longer difficult."
~ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now, 1997
This image is printed on Metallic Media with a black wooden frame,Size: 25.5x31.5 signed and ready to hang.
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery42.html
"The time has come, the walrus said,
To talk of many things;
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Of cabbages and kings.
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings."
~LEWIS CARROLE
This image is printed on canvas, Size: 20x20" -mounted with a black wooden frame, signed and ready to hang.
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery39.html
"By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of the Resistance Patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be."
~ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now, 2001
This piece is printed on canvas with a frame that has been enhanced with a subtle acrylic texture. The work can be rotated left, right or upside down for further meditation; it has been wired on the back for two positions. It is signed and ready to hang. Edition 2/50 Size:25.5x25.5"
Website: http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery39.html
"…recognize this world as a cosmic dance, the dance of form--no more and no less."
~ECKHART TOLLE, Stillness Speaks
This work is matted, mounted and framed with a metallic gold frame and plexiglas for protection. It is signed and ready to hang. Edition 1/50, Size: 18.25x24.75"
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery24-digital-art.html
Jules Verne wrote about things that did not exist, technology that did not exist in his time. And all the children that read those books went out and invented those things and more. Everything you see on Star Trek (Gene Roddenberry) will be manifested. The children who watch these things will make all of them, including replication technology, teleportation, healing with light and more.
~Mellen-Thomas Benedict, Messages from the Light
This is printed on canvas, mounted and framed with metallic silver, signed and ready to hang. Edition 1/50 - Size: 15.25x15.50"
http:MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery42.html
"The human face carries mystery and is the exposure point of the mystery of the individual life. It is where the private, inner world of a person protrudes into the anonymous world."
~JOHN O'DONOHUE, Anam Cara, a book of Celtic Wisdom.
This image has a white mat and gunmetal frame. It is signed and ready to hang. Edition 1/50 - Size: 22x28"
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery6.html
" 'I'…embodies the primordial error, a 'me' and 'myself' - a misconception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity…the ego."
~ECKHART TOLLE, A New Earth, 2005
This image is printed on Canvas, mounted with a black wooden frame, signed and ready to hang. Edition 1/50 - Size: 22x22"
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery39.html
"I want to know the ind of God Einstein said. The rest are details.
What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What does it mean to know the mind of God?
To be aware. What are the detail? Your outer [purpose and whatever happens outwardly."
~ECKHART TOLLE, A New Earth, 2005
This image is printed on canvas, gallery-wrapped on stretchers, Edition 1/50 - Size: 20x20" - signed and ready to hang.
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery49.html
"…we can be conscious participants in the unfolding of that intelligence, the flowering of consciousness."
~ECKHART TOLLE, A New Earth, 2005
This image is mounted with a gunmetal frame, signed and ready to hang. Edition 1/50 Size 28.5x19.25"
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery28.html
"When you achieve self-realization, you no longer identify with your body, mind, ego, or desires. You become a pure witness and in that state you can choose to transcend karma."
~DEEPAK CHOPRA, Life After Death, the Burden of Proof, 2006
This image is printed on canvas, gallery-wrapped, signed and ready to hang. Edition 1/50 - Size: 20x20"
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery40.html
"The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking.
The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness."
~Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
This work measures 18x18", Edition 1/50 - with a Gold Metallic frame with plexiglas, signed & ready to hang.
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery23.html
"Quantum physics now scientifically supports…that everything from our material bodies to our experiences to our planet to our universe form a seamless hologram of energy."
~Mellen-Thomas, Messages from the Light
Printed on Epson Archival Paper, this image is mounted with a mat, plexiglas and a metallic silver frame, signed, ready to hang. Edition 1/50 - Size:18.25x18.75"
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery48.html
"A body without spirit is a waste land.
A Spirit without a body is a waste land.
With body and spirit you have it all."
~Mellen- Benedict, Messages from the Light
This work is poster-sized, framed with black metal, signed and ready to hang. Edition: 2/50, Size: 27x36"
http://MINDWORKSart.net
/Gallery43.html
Carl Jung was a pioneer in the exploration of the unconscious mind. Dreams, fantasies, myths and free associations were some of his tools of exploration. Calming his mind and allowing thoughts and fantasies to rise up to consciousness were part of the process. MINDWORKS are drawing meditations, images rising from the unconscious mind.
Others have explored similar processes: Max Ernest with collage and frottage; Odilon Redon who could not abide a blank white surface, made smudges and saw a butterfly wing; Dubuffet who often began a canvas not knowing whether it would be a cow, a table or a person; Leonardo da Vinci who urged us to look at clouds and stains on the walls and read into them faces, animals and battle-scenes.
MINDWORKS are a process of discovery, art put to the service of self-realization for the artist as well as the viewer.
The world can be taken apart and shown to be something else…many other things.
This is called “Alternate Quantum Possibilities.”
This image is an entry to the Miami Spectrum-Red Dot Contest, November 4 to December 2016
MINDWORKS images are digital art and can be seen only on the computer monitor or as a print.
Prints are available in Zazzle.com various sizes and media.
Website: http://www.mindworksart.net/Gallery54.html
“ORCHESTRA 6, Detail 27, SPARKLE 2”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
~ALBERT EINSTEIN
This image is an entry to the Miami Spectrum-Red Dot Contest, November 4 to December 2016
MINDWORKS images are digital art and can be seen only on the computer monitor or as a print. Prints are available in Zazzle.com various sizes and media.
Website:http://www.mindworksart.net/Gallery56.html
“CONSCIOUS EFFORT, Detail 7a, SPARKLE ”
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown."
~CARL JUNG
This image is an entry to the Miami Spectrum-Red Dot Contest, November 4 to December 2016
MINDWORKS images are digital art and can be seen only on the computer monitor or as a print. Prints are available in Zazzle.com various sizes and media.
Website: http://www.mindworksart.net/Gallery52.html
“Indeed, if the universe is a holodeck…all permanence would have to be looked at as illusory,
and only consciousness would be eternal, the consciousness of the living universe.”
~MICHAEL TALBOT, The Holographic Universe, 1991
This image is an entry to the Miami Spectrum-Red Dot Contest, November 4 to December 2016
MINDWORKS images are digital art and can be seen only on the computer monitor or as a print. Prints are available in Zazzle.com various sizes and media.
Website: http://www.mindworksart.net/Gallery56.html
“A New Earth”
“One Hundred Monkeys”
“Allowing What Is”
“Between Heaven and Earth”
“Conscious Effort, Detail 6”
“Cosmic Dance”
“Damn! Angry Again”
“Edge of Darkness”
“Ego Observed”
“Forest Crones, Detail”
“Gone Fishing”
“Gnomes World”
“Life Is Difficult”
“My Way, Detail 3”
“Quantum Leap”
“Salome”
“The Jules Verne Effect”
“With Affection”
“Woman on the Mountain Top”
“Madness You Say”
“Depth Wandering ”
“Dance Insanity”
“Always Thinking!”
“A Hologram of Energy”
“Forest Crones 3a, Detail 3”
“Summer HEAT, Sparkle 3”
“DANCERS, Loud Music”
