Explanatory Texts

1:  Extracted from the Artist Statement from "10 from the File" an exhibiton at the Columbus Museum of Art in 1977 – curator, Lawrence Alloway.  For full statement see Selected Artists' Statements.

"The unfolding Con(jug)ates, clarifying formal insights into the similarities and differences of rotational, mirror and asymmetrical relationships as they transform form two dimensional planes, promoted further speculation on the implications inherent in the interaction between fundamental movements in space. They also facilitated metaphorical expression of less tangible concept.

 "Complementary," one of a group of 7 Con(jug)ative sequences began in 1976, is an element in a body of investigative work developed over a period of three years. Through the use of a composite of intuitive, logical and sensual thinking, a personal apprehension of the nature of complex and fundamental spatial relationships evolved.  Begun as a juxtaposition of two forms, the work increased in complexity of form and concept to become a physical demonstration of formal concepts, a means of self-realization and a further statement of a philosophical point of view.

The specific shapes in "Complementary" represent 12 stops on a continuum of possibility in the rotation and connexion of two similar symmetrical surfaces. Sealed and inflated, the sequence shows line and surface invariant in length and area but variant in position in space and spatial encompassment, according to differences in tension which result from the changing interaction between edge and surface. They exist; each  form a self-referential dialectic, yet integral part of larger units with analogy to the validity of alternative formulation and to the evolution of all form."

2:  Portions of the artist statement in the catalogue for  "Drawing on Sculpture" at  Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York. 1979.

"The Con(jug)ate drawings are a schematic summarization and projection of the effects of juxtapositioning two identical elements selected from...

Obtained from...

the subdivision of a disc."

Explanatory Texts

Examples from several experimental sets

Con(jug)ate 4

The full set of predictive Drawings