J.V.D. by Colin Greenly

Glass and aluminum, 1967, Tangible dimensions: H 3'-9 x W 10'-5 1/4 x L 17'-4 at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

From "Art International" Volume X11/3 March 1968: (revised)
I accept art as a ...demonstration of human sensitivity, and individuals as a macrocosmic and microcosmic reflection of nature. Art is the demonstration of one's capacity to discover and visually evidence the extent and diversity of the numerous possible lives of experience.

The present glass work goes beyond the several years and lives that led to and included my discovery of the "transitional form" seen in white relief drawings and late acrylic pieces of 1964, wherein universality of form and generative forces were distilled to a single shape, with change also implied through planning for variations of natural light.

In the new glass work absolute clarity and absolute ambiguity coexist: absolute clarity of form and relationships of tangible lines and volumes live beside, and are the source of the absolute ambiguity of non-tangible, yet visually factual volumes - to present the larger experience of certainty and uncertainty.

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