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Sculptural EtherealismThe Art OF Ira ReiNesA guiding principle behind the %u201cSculpturalEtherealism%u201d of master sculptor Ira Reines is that there is no beauty or order without chaos, since chaos is the precursor to creation itself. True to that concept, Reines%u2019s bronze thesis %u201cSculptural Etherealism%u201d effects the creation of visual essays that eloquently articulate divine order and beauty arising from the divine disorder of chaos, in a uniquely and universally significant way.In the spirit of %u201cSculptural Etherealism,%u201d Reines sculpts delicate and intricately formed figures of sublime beauty, emerging from chaos and disorder as if in the spiritual process of becoming and awakening into order, form and enlightenment.His masterful interpretations of %u201cSculptural Etherealism%u201d go beyond their exquisite beauty to address humanity%u2019s quest for faith, love, inspiration, hope and an understanding of our place within the vastness of the universe and the fullness of time. %u201cMy art has a spiritual beauty, a sense of ascension, grace, flight, awakening, and rebirth that is significant and rare. It is vital to me that it conveys beauty and the juxtaposition of order and chaos as metaphors for divinity.%u201d - Ira ReinesUpon Ert%u00e9%u2019s passing in 1990, Reines returned to his own sculptural vision exploring the relationship between man and the cosmos, order and chaos and the sublime divine beauty that arises from it. Over decades of seclusion, meditation and introspection, he evolved the sculpting style known as %u201cSculptural Etherealism%u201d%u2014delicate and intricately formed figures of nearly perfect beauty, emerging as if in the process of creation, replete with splendor and spirituality arising from theintricate relationships between order and chaos%u2014beauty born of chaos, form created from formlessness.MOST MAGAZINE - ISSUE 50 109