The Biblical Jacob’s Ladder
reaches into the world of dreams and aspiration but its base
is on ground rock. It functions symbolically summoning the
individual to change, the mind to switches gear, moved by
a thought or a vision. Yet it is also an actual ladder, a
path, a means to progress, progress made rung by rung, step
by step.
Just as in Farid Ud-din-Attar’s poem The Conference
of Birds , the path is the goal. The creative process of print-making
is, for me, absorbing and stimulating, because no print is
pre-conceived, each one evolves layer by layer, colour by
colour, silkscreen or woodblock over silkscreen. The only
criteria of importance being that the work achieve its own
rightness, its aesthetic autonomy.
The three prints evolved as a sequence, an upward movement,
a form of aesthetic teleology, a journey with its own raison
d’être. |
