Nepheshland
"Nepheshland" | October 19 - November 25th, 2011 | Biola University Art Gallery
Nepheshland draws together many ideas and explorations within my work from the past several years. For me it refers to a place neither real nor imagined, paralleling my day to day experiences in Los Angeles with an ever-present, distant realm partly illuminated by the Hebrew concept of "nephesh". In the creation story from Genesis, it is said that "God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living nephesh". More than one's soul or state of being, the term refers collectively to living, breathing creatures and the seat of their appetites and essential desires.
