Vortex13 Studio/Gallery  |  35 North Market Street Frederick MD 21701  |  Phone: 240.439.4000 Art is my spiritual practice and the only means I have to explore and communicate with the unknown forces that shape my world. I am a dreamer, a visionary, a mystic, a shaman. The works that I create are nothing more than my observations, notes and impressions in a Time- traveler’s journal. The avant-guard composer, John Cage, once said that “the purpose of Art is not to communicate with the audience. The purpose of Art is to still and quiet the mind, to make it receptive to divine influences.” I fully embrace this philosophy.  My sculptures are not intellectual constructs, nor are they meant as social commentaries. View them simply as meditational objects, as talismanic doorways to an inner world, as vortices, as ancient science-fiction. Art Click the photos for larger images and detailed information Sculptures Paintings Vortex13 Studio/Gallery  |  35 North Market Street Frederick MD 21701  |  Phone: 240-439-4000  |  Studio & Showroom of Master Goldsmith Douglas Zaruba