by franck andré jamme
"I have noticed in the Tantric works how the
simplicity of
their conventional, geometric forms is complemented by the infinite
complexity
of their particular execution: water stains, flaws in the handmade
paper,
fragments of unrelated text combine to make each work not only unique
but
somehow perfect. . . . It’s not just a desire for the antique or a
nostalgic
patina that makes the incidental marks so important, it’s precisely that
ideal
forms—forms plumbed from the depths of the mind, of the soul—need to
co-exist
with randomness and the emptiness of chance. How is it that a symbol of
god
alone is so dull, but when juxtaposed with a smudge or a smear it comes
alive?"
Lawrence Rinder, from
his introduction
