RAYMOND PERSINGER

 
 

The reliefs that I create are intended to reflect the vitality of life and the spiritual connection between man and nature.  Plato put forward the notion that “universals” (non-corporeal proto-archetypes) exist as a separate ideal reality.  Immanuel Kant used the term “noumenon” to refer to an unknowable reality underlying all things.  Rudolf Otto coined the term “numinous” to define a spiritual perception of objective reality.  Carl Jung based many of his ideas on these concepts, integrating them into his own writings.  My work is influenced by the idea of reality existing as a metaphor for something else.  I am not trying to create a universal language; I am instead creating a personal language.  One that is based part on my love of image making and part on my feeling that we are all part of a greater spiritual reality.  The world, people and things around us are a part of the voice of God, that voice is something we can tune into or make a choice to ignore, but there “signs and portents” all around.  The objects that I make are an expression of that idea.  


~Raymond Persinger