When we truly embrace our collective journey into deep space, it will be because of a fundamental shift away from the idea of a Specialized myopic universe to a knowledge of our own personal as well as collective oneness with a greater universe. Going into space may not change us, but the paradox of looking into ourselves while reaching for a new paradigm of deep space will. Markers and Mark Makers Art is not about technology or objects. Sometimes it has served artists to share this dialogue, by leaving markers of their journeys. Traditionally sculpture, with its intentional manipulation of materials, has been defined as a three-dimensional volume with aesthetic intent.
Aesthetic intent refers to the imagined form, the spiritual context or the ideological purpose.
One starts with the imagination, an idea, and then documents it by the use of sounds, objects, images, energy, words or some other form that our culture perceives as real and tangible. Microwave forms encourage the exploration of a different perception of that which is real. These microwaves do exist in reality, but they set up a paradoxical process within themselves, mirroring that artistic process that utilizes both an idea and its intangible result. The microwave form, detectable yet unavailable to the accepted senses, represents simultaneously the idea of the real and the imagined. To me, these soil paintings created a clear, concise metaphor for the compression of space and time.