Drawing / Mixed Media - Late Works

From the delicate to the monstrous, Kazaz is fluent in the numerous aesthetic languages of line, from, and their symbiotic relationship; his drawings are lucid and always establish a clear rationale for their visual events. There are no wasted strokes and, even through rapidly done, each defines a shape, which would be attractive even when slowly and deliberately drawn, ”Florence,“ (ink and acrylic on paper, 22“x30“) floats across the page like a ghost poem. Sparse in its details, Kazaz uses abstracted architectural notations, e.g. dome, column, piazza set behind a chalky atmospheric foreground to reinforce the idea of an eccentric community. He plays counterpoint with the great Italian sense of proportion by the addition of a billowing scarlet red flag and an isolated diminutive winged figure set deep within the background. They dance off each other like open flames and represent the creative past of the Florentine soul, free flowing, yet distant, in harmonic agreement with the present, but impossible to enter without the proper metaphor. To paraphrase Bachelard, it is as though his poem, through its exuberance, that he has awakened new depths in us. ”…We feel a poetic power rising naively within us… After the original reverberation, we are able to experience resonances, sentimental repercussions, and reminders of our past. But the image has touched the depths before it stirs the surface“ (Bachelard G., 1958, The Poetics of Space, Boston: Beacon Press, xix.). And, as the viewer prepares to enter the drawing in earnest, they can begin to appreciate its discrete reality, all, is not visible once inside – a Zen worldview.