About The Artist

An architect with his own practice for over 45 years, Alan is also a practioner of yoga philosophy and meditation. His art work combines both passions by creating structured and layered digital collages which express the hidden meanings of worldly and spiritual phenomenon. Alan's artwork is created with digital photos combined, enhanced, and transformed using Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Express, Akvis Oil Paint, Canva, Photopea, MyPaint, and Remove.bg software. Education: Columbia College; Columbia University School of Architecture (B.Arch. '65); Harvard Graduate School of Design (M.Arch. '66). Here is Alan's description of his artistic process: "These are all digital images using a variety of software to modify photographs and layer images and then transform them in various ways. I begin with figurative images, then transform them into more abstract images, and then combine the figurative and abstract. The process starts as a mental concept, then becomes an immersive experience where I exercise an intuitive part of myself that is usually hidden." SEE A VIDEO OF THE ART WORK HERE: https://youtu.be/no9N9xGPj7c SEE HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES HERE: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MGY3wObfIBChrhqArlw8Cw7ml72n_r6c?usp=sharing SEND INQUIRIES TO: spector.alan@gmail.com "In my artwork I seek to communicate spiritual experiences which may result from practicing meditation. During meditation I make repeated gentle efforts to rein in a scattered mind and bring it to a point of concentration on a sacred sound (mantra) or sacred image (yantra or mandala). The mantra or yantra is brought to a particular place within the body– usually a chakra such as the navel center, the heart center, the center of the head, or above. As my mind settles down it may become immersed in the chosen object My artwork strives to depict the essence of a chakra, yantra, or mantra and the experience of glimpsing that which lies beyond subjective awareness. Then I may clearly see the distinction between my limited individual consciousness and the expansive universal consciousness. My own spiritual experiences may be stained by personal memories so their artistic expression is still subjective and can only impart a partial view of reality. Real and intense spiritual experiences are totally unexpected, astounding, and indescribable in words, form and color."