Robert A. F. Tenzin Thurman

A Meditation on the “TIBETAN SUN” Sculpture by Michael Esbin

To see a piece of stone, in this instance a block of blue quartzite from Brazil, one of Earth’s hardest materials, become a flowing stream, an ocean, figuring in the event horizon of absolute voidness nondual with relative reality, is an ephiphanic experience.

Jonathan Goodman

Michael Esbin: Actions in Stone

Michael Esbin belongs to an outstanding, now mature generation of stone-carving artists, although it must be admitted that this kind of work is not supported as much as it used to be—especially in America.

Essay by Michael Esbin

Sculpture is a medium nearly as old as man himself and for much of our time on this earth sculptures created in stone have given meaning and sustenance to our lives, creating a touch-stone for us with ourselves and the infinite.

Richard Meier

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These immediately intrigued me, but only later, upon seeing his work in person, did I realize the masterful degree of creative expression achieved by Esbin in his remarkable sculpture.

Barry Edgar

Sculptor of the Cosmos

“I believe that sculpture can and should be a mythic function which enables us to transcend our daily reality and give us insight into the nature of matter and also to the interior of the mind. It is often true that the most complex of ideas can be expressed the simplest of forms.”

Jacques Berg

Nothingness Is Not Nothing

When someone sees a hole they want to get inside it. That is how the prehistoric caves were discovered.

Jacques Magnol

Intuition of the Cosmic Order

The sculptures of Michael Esbin treat the phenomenon of the flow of time, of a cosmic order, deep nature of matter through the movement of time on a level of the normal passing of time.