Staining the Wind
As an artist working with texts, I am interested in both verbal and non-verbal
ways of knowing.
By continually returning to the space where
the verbal and non-verbal intersect, I maintain a listening
state of mind, alert and receptive. It is from this state
that I gather inspiration from kinetic, sensory, emotional,
psychological, intellectual and ultimately spiritual information.
I make these aspects of non-visual reality visible, as if
staining the wind. I therefore consider the time I spend
in my studio to be a personal form of research into consciousness.
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“Chance” is important in my work because it allows elements
and relationships that I might never have created if I were to work completely
within what I know, within the boundaries of my skills and my comfort zone.
Chance is only a surface appearance of the universe that appears when we
relinquish control. The butterfly principle points to a connection among
all things, an order beyond our imagination or understanding. By acknowledging
this higher order as I work, I am, in a way, inviting the universe to collaborate
with me. Because I, too, am an integral part of this universe, it is actually
the universe collaborating with itself, through my eyes, hands and mind.
My part in the process is to recognize heretofore unfamiliar order in
the work. I often refer to the universal principle of the dynamic relationship
of opposites (e.g. chance and intention, organic and geometric) to guide
me through the unfamiliar territories in which I place myself. The resulting
elements and relationships generate energies that become the subject of
the work.
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