artist statement		art exhibits
I am an installation artist, and a mathematician. Art and mathematics are just two faces of the same creative coin and they are deeply linked at a conceptual level. Each reflects and holds beauty and harmony. Geometrical constructions are visually very appealing to our imagination. Equations are strikingly perfect in their abstract simplicity. Both art and mathematics express the structures of our minds and our beings. And with "our minds", in Buddhist and Hinduist tradition, I mean our world, and ourselves. So I can do mathematics, or paint abstracts, or meditate, or do yoga, and these [can] amount to doing the same thing. My art work reads like pages of gigantic chaotic books of lucid colors. My installations are artificial spaces meant to stun and shock through the intensity of their primary colors and their unrelenting possession and distortion of all available space. They are permeated by strong and brightly colored energy beams. My installations are mental cities of exuberant colors that grab and possess the totality of space. They are brightly colored meteors that are suspended and coursing through outer space. They continually bomb and assault us. It is Dante's inferno, in Yellow, Blue, and of course Red. I am inspired by the firing of neurons in our brains and the vibration of strings, by the waves in our daily lives. . My colors are very bright and mostly primary, the colors of the sun, challenging and contrasting each other as if at war. My installations are often [moving] out of focus, resembling the images, dreams, and memories in our minds. The fire in ourselves.