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that I engage in, is called my reflex… my nature of process art and also dialog between the material and the mark making. It has taken on a universal nature. So…. What happens is people come up to my studio; I have had a Chinese person come in and said it looks like contemporary Chinese Calligraphy. I had a Japanese woman come in, as a matter of fact she actually bought a piece from me, … said she was sure it spelled her name. I had a couple come in, they were Arabic, and they said it looked like ancient Arabic. I will have people insist there are ancient symbols again I have had someone who studies Japanese, lived here several years, say that these were Japanese words sort of speak…. symbols.
What personally is the highlight of your career? Probably my experience in Israel and the Palestinian territories In 2001 during the rise of the intifada in Israel I felt was compelled to see if there was anything I could do with my work to reconcile the differences not that is was going to save the world but just. The this thing I do is make art and so I got on the internet and I contacted those Palestinian and Israeli people who where doing work sort of bringing both of those together for some sort of resolution or reconciliation and I found a couple of centres, one in Hai8fa and one in Ramalla. It was great. I was going to lead a workshop in doing this sort of work in this workshop with people who were doing this sort of work.
The universal nature of this language has become the most curious part for the average person. For me, it is evolved mark making. Mark making that has evolved into this form.
In this workshop we have maybe six or eight people around a table. We all share one sheet of paper Everyone engages in mark making and the mark making is a way of engaging a dialog so people make a mark you make a response not thinking anything about is just looking at it and this would go around a table so it this being the cause being a neutral place this being a dialog.
Do you have any interesting life anecdotes? Dealing with opposites. With china the East West thing…. And I am trying to understand these relationships. When I was a kid. I was five years old I would often reflect on that. Id sit by the shore and see the water splashing against this big rock and I was just curious of the notion of this big rock which is very concrete and solid and the fluidity of the water and that became… eventually shows up ion my work as a relationship with that is linear and that which is not linear that which is quantum mechanics... relationship to conscious things which are measurable in forms of algorithms so working intensely with those opposites what they mean to us internally is part of the process. This script… Markograpohy.
Pure dialog in both in terms of science and diplomacy means neither party has an idea of what is going to be the out come. Same thing when you make art you engage in a dialog… complex dialog but you don’t know what is going to come out of it. It its that process of dialoguing that creates the final piece. So in sense when the conversation is resolved that is when the piece is done. Or almost resolved so I explained this process and I to people on the Internet back and forth. I had an invitation to the centre of reconciliation and mediation in Ramalla and also one from Haifa. And a week before I left that is when the bombing really went crazy blowing up busses and we got emails from both 57