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• Artist
  Ron Quick
• Title
  Aspara 3
• Date of Production
  July 2010
• Medium
  Pencil on paper
• Dimensions
• Credit Details
  Courtesy the artist

Ron Quick: Seeking Nirvana

Seeking Nirvana explores two forms of human movement: the still moment within a dynamic vigorous dance and the moment where body weight is transferred while walking.  Both represent a momentary state of equilibrium which simultaneously anticipates a dynamic tension.

Artist Ron Quick has a long term interest in the poetic relationship that exists between opposites and the transitions that occur as they meet and merge to become luminous. 

In the Aspara drawings he builds on the images of the courtly dancers who adorn the temple walls of Angkor Wat to depict figures who dance for themselves in a sensuous-whirling-meditation, merging from darkness to light or from light to darkness amid the Thai Katoey culture of transgender lady-men.

The Asparah and Monks represent two ways one might reach a personal state of grace, a state he finds in the act of drawing itself.