flux  (flŭks) fluxus, fluxing,  1999 to present

Latin (late 14c) 1: a continuous moving on or passing by flow; 2: FLOOD a flux of words; 3: INFLUX; 4: CHANGE, FLUCTUATION in a state of flux; 5: the rate of transfer of fluid, particles, or energy across a given surface. Old French- flus means "a flowing, a rolling; a bleeding".

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The 1st and 2nd images (below) represent a group of related works from1999-2002 that utilize abstracted motifs of interacting armored, figure-forms to explore adaptations and self-protective instincts of survival. While these early influences began with my own personal/individual experiences, the later works (beginning in 2016 and represented by 3rd, 4th, 5th, below) are influenced by collective social/political context. The current “chapter” of Flux deals with the global crises of today which are not easy to express visually— but impossible for me to ignore. My abstract musings are influenced by the lingering trauma of Trumpism; degradation of the principals of democracy and rise of authoritarianism; continuing impact of COVID-19; police killings of Black people and systemic racism; and Putin’s imperial       land-grabs and global threat of nuclear war.

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Life is Flux. Everything is constantly changing and opposite things are identical, so that everything is and is not at the same time.

­-philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus (l. c. 500 BCE)

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