Influences
“One word may be likened unto fire, another unto light, and the influence which both exert is manifest in the world."
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh LAWH-I-MAQSÚD page 172
Are the images we see not the same as the words we hear? These properties of the world that we take into ourselves change us. They become part of us. It is said that you are what you eat. Does your mind, even your soul, not eat with your ears and eyes? Consider what we take in. There are people who see a hundred murders a day on television.
It is better to watch the sea and contemplate its infinite steadfastness, its endurance and lasting power. Beauty is to be drunk like ambrosia. That is living. What passes for entertainment is often pure poison. We are transformers of the world around us. We take it in and we leave the traces of what we become behind us as we pass through our lives. It is up to us to leave worthy traces.
“In the eyes of the All-Merciful a true man appeareth even as a firmament; its sun and moon are his sight and hearing, and his shining and resplendent character its stars. His is the loftiest station, and his influence educateth the world of being.”
1 An illuminated rendering of the "Greatest Name."
For an explanation of the symbol of the Greatest Name click on the image.
2 An illumination of the Arabic Calligraphy for "Ya Bahá'u'l-Abhá" by Mishkín-Qalam
3 A Mandala, Mahakala (protector) from the Himalaya.
For more Himalayan art click on the image
4 A representation of the Mandelbrot Set.
For more information on the Mandelbrot Set click on the image.
5. A photograph of the California coast by yours truly.
Two paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Eight paintings by Claude Monet including six from his famous Waterlilies series.
Ten Paintings by Vincent van Gogh including “Irises” “Starry Night” a self portrait, “Rest” (my favoririte) and “Cornfield with Crows”
Four paintings by Andrew Wyeth
Six paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe
Five paintings by Mark Rothko
A photo of the Rothko Chapel in Huston Texas
“And Death Shall Have no Dominion” by Kenji Konishi.
“Vir Heroicus Sublimis” by Barnett Newman
Four Himalayan Mandalas
A Picasso from the blue period.
Four paintings by Yves Tanguy
Two paintings by Maxfield Parrish
Four paintings by Salvador Dalí including “The Last Supper”
and “The Landing of Columbus”
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” and “The Temptation of St. Anthony”
by Hieronymus Bosch
“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”
By Paul Gauguin
“Guernica” by Picasso
“Somnambulism” by Kenji Konishi.
This is a gallery of images by artists whoes work has most influenced me.
There are also images of other kinds that may provide a visual context for others to better understand where my ideas come from. My work must stand on its own without these references but this rich experience may help.
