Rason - “Enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast” (Isaiah 26:20).

 If i ask what is it I am doing here I am skilled in practically nothing but that seems adapted to time and place where few are compared to the boat builders, voyagers, farmers explores who preceded ut.  I am not particularly skilled as a scholar even with a degree, not a fastidious research, more of leap from place to place, a dilettante. If there is something of focus it must be to account for life birth, in all the issues of the great thinkers and writers and to make up little vignettes along the way,   place to place, moment to moment, augments on arguments, a word here, an idea there, a patchwork surely but desired to be lyrical, fraught with sound and meaning. whatever emerges from this I don't know except to say it seeks to confront from the top down not the bottom up, to go right in the face of ultimate affronts to our life and se them for what they are. So to start from the beginning of what a child can know, to speculate the coming down into the womb and being born with all the precipitate acts of contradictions encountered and to end up at 80 and beyond with less understanding than before, but to keep going, hold to the plan, go give an account of what we re, all of us together who enter this life. there has never been a plot beyond that which we call accident which is providence and faith. I explore this in ever medium I can, first words, then family and flesh, then work and travel and finally in clay, which is a proper medium of the exchange between the created and the creator who makes the plan and pattern and then releases it slowly into the clay so that it hows, for too sudden a release will cause it to fail. I think many of these sculptures, frescoes, pots ceramic display the Rason the best because often it is  the case that only when the process is done do I have any idea what has been made. Some show this better than others like the taurobolium of the figure of the United States that simply appeared as i worked and as I recognized the form slowly began to provide a setting for it, after the fact. After the face, post cognition has become more and more important in the life of pattern recognition of 80 and on. Compared to all the works encountered on the way, the way a good charcoal is made to let the hand lead the eye to recognition. To add up its significance, all is vanity, there is good only from the point of view of imperfection at the best and at the worst, no hope. So to end up, to hope against knowledge, to hope against history and politics, to hope against the world is the last post cognition and to build faith in that time the true work of importance.