Kantian Deity Print

Born: St. Louis, MO., October 5, 1965. I am currently working on a new series of engraved and etching prints titled "Monumental Mysteries."

My compositions are influenced by religious sources in 18th and 19th century Romantic art and theory. Inspired by Immanuel Kant's essay, The Critique of Theological and Aesthetic Judgement (1787), I have assimilated into my artwork a non-pantheistic interpretation of the sublime in which the mind contains the abstract representation and divine inspiration of God.
The "sublime," is the name given to what is absolutely great, as in religion, through a manifestation of an all-powerful being or deity. The representation of God into a concrete form is the most challenging response, which I can formulate. By interpreting the deity as a form of power, wisdom, justice or truth, I am led toward psychological and spiritual enlightenment. Therefore, I have chosen to represent God and other religious icons in abstract form through the attributes of infinity, vastness and astonishment.
The main reason for creating my own interpretation of the Bible is that I believe contemporary society has abandoned religious art. Thus, I wish to evoke a radically different symbolic language not based on traditional theological interpretation, which will restore the importance of spirituality and faith to the viewer.