Ts'ui- Getting together, 1969

Acrylic on canvas, 90' x 112"

Galaxy Series

Isham's approach was the exploration of images that could serve as analogues and catalysts for non-discursive thought, particularly for inwardly concentrated, timeless states of being. This search inevitably reached the circle as the image of maximum centripetal focus for psychic energy, for thought released from the contingencies of action; and the circle became the endpoint of the artist's calligraphic development.

-Edward F. Fry

Art Historian and Critic

Indeed, the nature of the round object (oval, ellipsis) has always concerned Isham ("The mystery of the womb and the tomb, in Joseph Campbell's phrase).

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 Alexander Borovsky