The Elements of the Story and the Elements of the Truth
I have buildings, I have trees, I have openings in the buildings’ walls.
I usually have something green.
And I have some humans or animals that are twisted and obscured, but have strong hints of human or animal poses and movements.
The earth has many times hints of rocks, cracks folds and ploughed fields.
You can find things like these in this painting and in most of my other artworks.
But the paintings are different from each other.
What are different are the lines, the composition and the colors.
So these are the real content of my works.
Give me hands, give me spiders, give me stones, and I will use them to create different compositions, with lines that feel different and of course colors that tell different experiential stories.
Many years ago I made prints that had only numbers in them. I’ve always been like this.
So it is the composition and the expressions of the lines and the colors.
Do you want to understand me?
Look me up in these.
But it will be only a relative knowing.
It is impossible to understand me.
I am infinite, just like you.
I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I became involved with the Chan Meditation Center and studied meditation and Buddhist knowledge with the late Master Sheng-yen from Taiwan. For twelve years I was in a process of deepening my meditation. I had many more experiences and insights and my life changed. After having illustrated more than 40 children’s books and writing two of them, I left this career too and went to New York University to study art therapy.
You can see more about Giora’s work on his blog and website