Happily there are times when creative visualization, followed by creative action, brings forth into physical reality an artifact which exceeds the inspiring concept. I am fortunate to experience this joy in multiple fields of endeavor.
Several of my designs in the fields of architecture, computer science and digital art have risen to this level. However, my greatest is in the creation of kiln formed glass objects. For example, my creation, ‘Thirty Transcendent Virtues’ has been most rewarding. I met the great architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller while studying architecture in college. Bucky inspired me to explore spherical geometries. Creating a single golden rhombus in fused glass is virtuous. But successfully joining thirty glass rhombus in a spherical rhombic triacontahedron is transcendent. The individual glass facets join together using a tensile network to form a unique glass vessel that encompasses space, color, light, movement, texture, transparency, reflection, and radiance in a whole greater than its parts. Meditation upon this glass art object enables self to witness symmetry, beauty and truth beyond self. The Thirty Verses of Vasubandhu
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Thirty Transcendent Virtues
