Silent lotus

silent lotus is a spiritual advisor with an additional gift of sharing through poetry and art. Descending from grandparents who traveled from homes in Hungary and Russia, silent lotus was born in America. He was raised in the small unique community of Roosevelt, New Jersey, which was designed in the Bauhaus style by Louis Kahn and Alfred Kastner in 1936 and was the home to many renowned people in the arts including Ben Shahn, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Jacob Landau, Gregory Prestopino and Benjamin Appel. During 1970-71 he helped to organize college charity benefits in Boston that were in part performed by his classmate, performance artist/comedian, Andy Kaufman. In his mid-twenties he left for the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean to give priority to his talents as a visual artist. Almost two years later, as crew of a 30-meter sailboat, along with film producer Saul Zaentz, he ventured across the Atlantic Ocean. From the Mediterranean he traveled overland through Europe and settled in the city of Rotterdam. He began a unique friendship with the elderly Willem Sandberg. Shortly thereafter his work was purchased by the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam for the permanent collection. One of his earliest lithographs was commissioned by the art editor of the NRC Handelsblad and the entire edition was sold out in less than a week.

In 1995 he was chosen to represent The Netherlands in the Art Accra exhibition held in Accra, Ghana. His video about his art work TOBARI was shown on Ghana's National Television and he was also interviewed by Lana Wong for BBC Television.

He was interviewed in 2004 about his poetry by Louise Hutner, editor of Sacred Journey and in 2006 by Donna Stein the publisher of Tiferet.

silent lotus was one of the opening speakers at the June 2006 United States Department of Peace Northeast Conference.

silent lotus read his poetry as the opening speaker at the commemoration of Hiroshima & Nagasaki held August 2008 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

silent lotus received an award from Peter Kilmartin the Attorney General Of Rhode Island as well as one from Gina Raimondo the General Treasurer of Rhode Island in April of 2011 in recognition for the program he facilitated at the Institute For The Study & Practice Of Nonviolence in Providence to teach victims of violence to learn how to express themselves through poetry. Also awarded for their participation were his Ocean State Poets colleagues Kathleen O'Kula and Lisa Starr the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. The awards were presented during National Crime Victim's Rights Week.

His poetry has been published in Europe, England, America, Canada and Australia.

The oeuvre of his visual art is known as Icons Of Silence and his poetry Listening To Love.