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Tokatlian expresses multiple levels of experience in his transformed figures. Take for instance, the sculpture The Huge Winds of the Universe are Scratching at Humanity. This female figure, whose jutting breasts identify her as humanity’s great mother, is at her base reduced to eroded stone, her suffering body coursing with energy, released through her hair that reaches upward. In this figure, the artist expresses human tragedy, both its suffering and its petrifying effect on the human spirit. At the same time, this work is embodies a hard-won sense of hope in the figure’s forward movement and fertility.

Tokatlian embraces humanity’s great existential and spiritual dramas, expressed as a fulfillment of its mythic destiny. The sculptor confronts us with the presence of evil in the world, arising from deep in humanity itself. He presents the perpetual dance of male and female, both together sustaining the world. He allows us to glimpse at the circle of life in the form of a cosmic mother and her orbiting child, humanity itself. And he shows us a single man, dancing to unheard music, holding the egg of rebirth lightly in his fingers.

Tokatlian is a sculptor who gives us visions, dream-like images, which carry within them suffering and wisdom, the fantastic and the real, all made manifest in human form.
– John Mendelsohn – www.ktcassoc.com  
   
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