Paraclete #14 Print

This work is the fourteenth of a series of pieces I began in 1983. A couple of years earlier I had done a piece using the paper part of a chinese paper kite and had pinned its bamboo frame on my studio wall. In looking at it one day it occurred to me it would be intriguing if I made wings for the frame but left the body as just the skeletal members of the kite structure so that it would be bodyless. I felt it would evoke a spirit, a representation of all that is our minds or spirits. The part of us beyond our bodies whether you are spiritual or religious or aren't a believer there is undeniably a dimension to our beings which is ineffable and which exists in its own kind of space. That is what I was trying to express with the pieces but the series has also become a touch-stone of where my work has evolved to stylistically and in its symbolism or meaning. The Catholic church considers the term Paraclete to mean the Holy Ghost but it can mean all the different ways birds have been used yo symbolize the spirit in many periods and across many cultures. It's precise meaning is an advocate or helper.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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