Artist Information:
David Bookbinder
Beverly, MA
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
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Artist Statement:
My current preoccupations are
with photographing the sea and
sky near on the North Shore
coastline and transforming
photographs of flowers, stone,
metal, wood, and the sky into
mandala-like images. This work
is inspired by the paintings
of Georgia O'Keeffe and Claude
Monet, the nature photographs
of Andreas Feininger, and the
flower images of Harold
Feinstein, with whom I briefly
studied.
My personal motivation in
creating these more recent
images was to heal from a
decade of physical and
emotional trauma, the
consequence of a near-fatal
event in Albany, New York, in
1993. My choice of the
hexagram (the Star of David,
'beloved' in Hebrew) as the
organizing shape for most of
the mandala images was
subconscious, but I believe
this choice was no accident.
In many traditions, the Star
of David, composed of two
overlapping triangles,
represents the reconciliation
of opposites — male/female,
fire/water, and so on. Their
combination symbolizes unity
and harmony. Listening to what
the mandalas were telling me
led me out of a dark place
and, indirectly, to my
decision to become a
psychotherapist.
Making both the flower mandala
and the sea/sky images feel,
to me, like I am in
wordless...
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Artist Exhibitions:
AWARDS
Grant in Photography,
Massachusetts Cultural Council
(2007).
Best Picture of the Month,
Photography Unlimited
(2002-2003).
PUBLICATIONS
Portfolio publication, "Flower
Mandalas," LensWork Extended
69 (2007).
SHOWS
Two-person show, "Mandalas &
Mudras," Pond Circle Gallery
(Jamaica Plain, MA: 2007).
Group show, "Digital ’07:
Pattern-Finding, New York Hall
of Science (...
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My current preoccupations are with photographing the sea and sky near on the North Shore coastline and transforming photographs of flowers, stone, metal, wood, and the sky into mandala-like images. This work is inspired by the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe and Claude Monet, the nature photographs of Andreas Feininger, and the flower images of Harold Feinstein, with whom I briefly studied.
My personal motivation in creating these more recent images was to heal from a decade of physical and emotional trauma, the consequence of a near-fatal event in Albany, New York, in 1993. My choice of the hexagram (the Star of David, 'beloved' in Hebrew) as the organizing shape for most of the mandala images was subconscious, but I believe this choice was no accident. In many traditions, the Star of David, composed of two overlapping triangles, represents the reconciliation of opposites — male/female, fire/water, and so on. Their combination symbolizes unity and harmony. Listening to what the mandalas were telling me led me out of a dark place and, indirectly, to my decision to become a psychotherapist.
Making both the flower mandala and the sea/sky images feel, to me, like I am in wordless... |
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