I use laser engraving, hand carving, and watercolor on plywood to create a “Lazy Susan” that embodies my idea of mediation. Mediation reconciles differing factors; therefore, mediated art results from finding “common ground” (whether it be creating a product that unites a range of creative disciplines, mediums, or forms of mark making). Meals, for example, are a form of mediation. They are common ground between all people and all periods of time. We all have to eat, regardless of where or when we are.
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To convey this, I laser engraved three line drawings of three meals from three points of my life to represent my past, and two sets of chopsticks to represent my future. The Lazy Susan is mounted on the wall to give my piece its clock-like aspect, and the words “Time and Time Again” are carved around the edge of the Lazy Susan; regardless of whether they are read clockwise or counterclockwise, the message remains the same. Time and Time Again is a piece that unites various mediums, while answering to the question, “what does mediation mean to you?”