‘Sekhmet Waits: She who loves Ma’at: She who is powerful: a triptych’: oil on aluminium, 90X120cm ea
Egyptian mythology is woven in with Japan’s Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detectors. Sekhmet was the lion-headed Egyptian goddess of hot desert sun, plague, chaos, war and healing. She was created to destroy humans for not living in accordance of principles of goddess Ma’at. Ma’at was the goddess of truth, justice, balance and order. She was more […]
‘Once Upon a Time, Over the Gravity Well and Far Away – a diptych’, oil on aluminium, 90X145cm each
‘Once Upon a Time, Over the Gravity Well and Far Away: a diptych’, oil on aluminium, 90X145cm each, 2021 This is one of the most important commissions I have done to date as it is for Jennifer Goldsmith-Grinspoon and David Grinspoon. David’s books (EARTH in HUMAN HANDS, Chasing New Horizons), science and philosophy have been […]
‘Mimir’s Well: a Triptych’, oil on aluminium panel, 80X120 cm each, 2019
‘I know where Odin’s eye is hidden, Deep in the wide-famed well of Mimir; In Norse mythology Odin’s thirst for wisdom is almost insatiable. In one story Odin sacrificed his eye in return for a drink from Mimir’s well and the cosmic knowledge that he would attain from taking such a drink. Mimir is a […]
‘Hypatia’s Window: a pentaptych’ oil on canvas, 180X200 cm each, 2019
My pentaptych, is a study of the F-1 rocket engine Injector Plate and Hypatia – a female philosopher-mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt and was lynched by christian mob in 415 CE. I found the similarity between the form of the plate and the rose windows of Gothic architecture striking and was further inspired when […]
Progressive Overdrive: oil on canvas, 110X110 cm
Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 26th 1969 represents an event that will forever remain unique in history: the first time a human being stood on the surface of another celestial body. It will be one of the few moments that will still be discussed and celebrated in another fifty years, in […]
‘Etemenanki Rises: a diptych’ oil on aluminium panel (120X200 cm) and neon light installation
A diptych that is a celebration of the multifaceted achievement that is the 21st century urban environment and the hope for our sustainable future that cities represent. Etemenanki was first ‘high rise’: a 91m high ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon located in modern day Iraq. Scholars consider […]