Stone Sculptures
Stone, old as the earth, in fact earth itself.
The mountain ranges, the mossy scorched crusts, the burning earth of Persia, the sweet pink of Portugal, the gentle jade of China, the white marble of the Apennines, the sea black of Belgium, the night blue of Labrador, and all other shades and hues imaginable.
Heritage and Tradition
The pyramids, the temples, the limestone capitals, the alabaster cities, Saint Peter and Taj Mahal . . . and of course the heroic classical art, where men are elevated to God and God presented to men (Greece and Egypt), and surely our time is different!
Yet I like the stone, it is a romance.
It challenges through its nobility, variety in structure and color, its weight and power, its roughness and purity. It asks for a precise definition and technical perfection and allows a richness of textural treatment. It has its own space, silence and sound.
The themes you will see in the exhibition are conceived from the beginning in the stone and convey their intent best through this special material. The ideas are based on laws of Nature and philosophical concepts. It is my effort to reconcile these complex ideas in a clear formal expression, symmetry, axiality, proportion, volume and space, harmony, balance and light. Having worked in the tradition of the human figure and gone through the experiments of abstraction and material research, I feel my work as a synthesis, exploring really new vistas but arching also to different periods of culture.
It is my hope that art may find a place in your heart and place for itself, to reveal in silence its matrix, meaning and music, when you take some time for quiet contemplation.
~Jacob Meijer