Documontage is an anthology of designs inspired by poets and philosophers. Their

words have been translated into lines, shapes and colors-- giving them visible,

tangible form. I believe the resultant designs are open-ended to the degree that they will allow

the viewer to interpret and thereby become a participant in the process of creating this montage.

Color is the dominant feature in many of the designs; it is felt that the whisper of a hue

might be the equivalent of a poet’s intention.



The quotations appear to be related, but this was not premeditated--there is no attempt to force

these ideas into a neat package. Though there are shared sentiments, any semblance of coherence

will spring from your own sensibilities. Many of the citations which appear in this collection were

found while researching material for my lectures. As a result students in my aesthetics, color and

design courses were often the recipients of the notions of Goethe, Santayana, Tennyson, Thoreau.

Perhaps a spark now and then allowed for their perceptions to be expanded.



St. Augustine said it in this way:

“What I have in mind is the harmonia, whereby the whole body, inside and out, can

be looked upon as a kind of organic music all its own. The beauty of this music no

one has yet discovered, because no one has dared look for it. If this total organic design

could only be discerned, there would be revealed to the soul so ravishing a beauty that

no visible form could be compared with it.”



If a thought or a phrase, a line or a color provides a measure of meaning ---perhaps

it will be an affirmation that the echos of recognition spring from you.



You are invited to contemplate metaphors of ourselves.