- titled: "Search for Unity" (lower left corner)
- signed: "Arthur Secunda" (lower right corner)
- medium: serigraph, printed in Paris at Jarry Atelier,
with hand coloring by the artist
- dimensions: image size: 11 3/4" x 7 3/4"; paper size:
16" x 12"
- edition: 15 prints, numbered 1/15 to 15/15; and one
artist's proof
- date published: 1994
- print number: 94-01-015
- published by: Pierian Press Fine Art Editions
Introduction, by C. Edward Wall
The triangle has been a recurring theme in Secunda's art,
inspired, in part, by the road to Arles, France, which Secunda has
traveled many times during his lifetime.
The trees along the road to Arles
have grown over it forming a triangular "tunnel" that first invites
you to enter it and then compels you to travel its course. As a
result, the triangle in many Secunda images contains both a
beginning and an end, and symbolizes a pathway in life that one has
no recourse but to traverse.
Search for Unity reflects the quest for that elusive
objective: oneness. Outstretched "wings" (each half of a larger
whole) are accentuated by hand colored highlights in gold, silver,
black, white, and blue, intimating myriad actions driven by varying
degrees of altruism, selfishness, and emotion that are part of
life - and part of the search for unity. The two "wings" in this
image symbolize the objectives and perspectives of contending
entities; they are attached but extend in opposing directions,
suggesting the eternal human struggle for integration and
perfection.
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