Marla Mayerson


	Marla Mayerson Columbus, Ohio
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My artwork is constructed around the theme of merging ancient spiritual icons with modern notions of time and space, and placing them into a high-tech plane for reinterpretation. The nature of my work often deals with a cosmological and spiritual perspective about how we interpret our existence. The subject matter I approach is meant to raise questions about our belief systems and value structures.

Modern technological art forms, such as fractals, are created from the same mathematical roots which have influenced ancient architectural structures in one culture and established patterns of living in another. Cosmological visions and spiritual beliefs take on different forms and interpretations depending on the socio-historical context and emphasis of the dominant culture. Traditions in art have always placed inherent value in the art object and have rejected newer forms of media, inclusive of photography and digital imagery, in part, because of scale, form, and the nature of the medium. However, manipulation of images decenters control in the production of meaning and brings our traditional value systems into question. Notions such as meaning, existence, and ownership shift with the passage of time and space and how we interpret the meaning of the cosmos. The concepts which merge the newer media alongside more traditional ones have commonalty and share the same basic origins.

"Meditation on Clouds" was intended to convey a higher cosmic power enveloping our human presence as defined through our spiritual belief systems and the iconography associated with it.