Through a Glass , Darkly
Through a Glass , Darkly , no . 3 , encaustic on 8 panels , 21 x 34 inches , 2012
In the past year , I continued work that was in part inspired by another Bergman film , Through a Glass , Darkly . Suffused with Beethoven ' s sonorous chamber music , the film uses only 4 characters , whose actions at times mirror each other , to explore notions of spiritual clarity and certainty . The biblical source suggests that in life our understanding of God is limited and incomplete — like the reflection seen in an antique mirror whose darkened glass surface obscures our view . Perhaps there is no better metaphor for our understanding of Truth and Reality , as we grope through fogged light of experience in search of clarity and purpose . In these works , it made sense to me to employ multiple panels to emphasize the fluid relationships between parts .
As an artist , I hope to create works that invite a viewer to a moment of inner contemplation and reflection , objects that in some way offer a gateway to both collective and individuated memory . I want to produce work that somehow collapses time , where one experiences both the fullness and the silence of an expansive moment .