Among my abstract art is a unique style of decorative, non objective art that I call "pattern abstracts." These art works can be seen at the

These decorative abstract art works are allover patterns, overlaid atop one another, built up of layers of textures and decorative pieces in a quilt-like manner.  To build up layers, I use collage with painting and other media, and focus on the interplay of two and three dimensions.  To achieve movement in time as well as space, I often use metallics to make the art change with the position of the viewer or lighting.The aesthetic challenge in this work is integrating diverse elements to create order and harmony within complexity.  The goal is the same as for all good art, to reveal the "play of the relative on the ground of the absolute."

The word "decorative" (like the word "beautiful") means superficial and banal in modern art lingo, but these pattern-based abstract paintings and collages appear to be unique and so there is no other available term to describe them.  Perhaps their closest relative in modern art is op art, in that they are a sophisticated visual exercise.  Far from superficial, viewing these works is a kind of visual meditation.