The works are the visual result of my response to Jung and his archetypes, as well as ancient symbols that have continued to have meaning throughout time: regenerative symbols including the spiral, the snake, and the egg. The works are very conceptual and abstract. They were the result of a process of automatic mark making.

For example:

This particular work includes the markings of the pubic triangle from as far back as 10,000 BC; this was an indication of birth or creativity. Even today the triangle has meaning in that it represents the trinity of the Christian Church and in Judaism, a double triangle forms the Star of David. Here, I have combined these triangles with the markings of the spiral, making a tight package reminiscent of a coiled snake, which in ancient times was an indication of energy, and still is today in the form of the Hindu kundalini. What I see here, is that progression is the result of energy and creativity, but it is from the tension of the coiled spring that provides the impetus for growth. It is called “resist resistez resista a widerstehen sie resista verzet tegenme”.

As I was titling each work and because our written language is made up of visual symbols, I saw a correlation between these ancient symbols and our system of handwriting/communication (the symbol of waves of water, M, "mu" is water in Egyptian hieroglyphics as well as in Greek). The title of each is written in the languages which influenced English. It is really quite interesting to see how a word can occur in each with minimal spelling changes - almost as if the concept transferred intact - examples such as "social", "energy", "regeneration" and "magnetism". What is it about these specific words that their core has transferred across linguistic barriers?

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