Translating data on thoughts and feelings

The Enso, Japanese for circle, is Karen Margolis’ inspiration for imagery. It is a sacred symbol in Zen Buddhism, embodying infinity and perfection. She’s very attracted to this mystical aspect as well as the paradox of imperfection, and reinterpret the circle in both positive and negative space as a shared language connecting body to mind. In a struggle between destruction and creation, her art making involves two distinctly opposing procedures: burning holes in material as an act of elimination and then constructing discrete components into compositions. Within these margins she…