Statement–October 1, 2008, We Naturally Desire Harmony, first published in Po10tial Magazine, November 2011

Michael Boles, My Second Flip, 2007. Aluminum, onyx, hematite, and bronze.
36" x 31" x 1." Private collection.

We naturally desire harmony in our visual experiences. When it happens in space it can be confrontational; on a plane it maintains a tangible tactile quality and presence, and somehow it occurs as an individual validation resulting from a cumulative acceptance. My works are meant to be experienced viscerally, as that is how they originated.