Equivalence of Form

Equivalence of Form is based on theories found in Hermetic Philosophy and Kabbalah, bastions of secrecy to the most carefully guarded truisms about reality and the universe itself. A ferocious tiger looms large over iterations of itself below, twisting like a chain link as an analogy for God and our likeness to its image and being. It spirals downward through degrees of existence separated only by dissimilitude of perfection and purity until it reaches the coarsest and the most base form of itself below, as humankind chasing its quarry. The depiction inverses the nature of matter, where humanity is made up of the bulkiest, most massive and heaviest machinery at the bottom, which lightens as it elevates until it reaches a more than microscopic scale in its most magnificent, powerful and expansive form as the Creator itself. Aggression, transformation, and release are themes marbled throughout the piece while maintaining a constant reminder about our increasing and inevitable merger with technology, down to its most minute and invisible manifestations.

• Oil on canvas

• 36”x48”

• (2012)

Exhibited at Copro Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2013); private exhibition and sale in Montreal, PQ (2014).