Diviner

Made on an unusual cut-out birch wood support, the crouching figure seems at once grounded and weightlessly suspended in the palms of the four wing-like hands around him. His stretched out right hand reiterates the axis of larger hands and is poised in the position of a diviner whether casting sacred nuts or bones, reading animal tracks on the ground, recording results of mystical numerology, or consulting an ancient text. It is also the hand gesture of the painter. Both professions can diagnose aff afflictions, decode seemingly random patterns, serve as repositories of memory and wisdom, and bring insight into the human condition.