John Faul

 Buddha, as a symbol, embodies stillness, compassion, and awakening. He signifies the journey from suffering to clarity, inviting reflection on impermanence and inner peace. 

In art, the Buddha becomes both presence and metaphor—an image of balance between material and spiritual realms, a timeless reminder of humanity’s potential for wisdom, compassion, and transcendence beyond the self.

These photo-transferred prints on aluminum plates depict the Red men — inner guides I encountered in a vivid dream. They arrived not with gentleness, but with undeniable presence: urgent, vocative, and impossible to ignore. Their faces, abstract and fractured, carry an imperative—a call to transformation. These beings did not comfort; they insisted.

Each figure is a mirror and a threshold, confronting me with what must change. They speak in gesture and silence, offering not answers but direction. In their fragmented, dream-wrought form, they hold a strange authority—guides from within who demand I awake, act, and become an artist.

A baby can signify the birth of hope and renewal as a fresh start also heralding a divine presence of significant change. A baby is vulnerable and fragile and as a metaphor suggests early stages of ideas, projects, and a new journey ahead. The symbol of a baby embodies growth and transformation as untapped possibilities await. Care, patience, and faith in the unknown is needed when one holds pure and unformed essence in one's hands.