Works on canvas
ESSENCE & PRESENCE
Works 2023-2024
Acrylic, ink on canvas and acrylic, ink on copper leaf and canvas or wood.
What is our authentic core, our origin, our essence, from which we have evolved through the spiral of time and space into an individual presence?
The image of the "inner egg" or "inner seed" became quite apparent to me, while pondering this question. Similar to eggs, seeds are the origin of all living things. Both hold the authentic, whole blueprint (the essence), all of the developmental potential, and the individual signature (presence) of the plant, animal, or human.
If we return to our core, our seed, we return to our original self - to our "default settings" and our entire potential.
Here lies the all-encompassing power that a seedling musters to pierce the asphalt, or a chick to break open the eggshell.
These new works feel enigmatic: painted in a new technique on copper leaf on canvas or wood, they are atmospheric, ethereal, abstract, and anthropomorphic, appearing antique and futuristic, old and new at the same time. They're reminiscent of religious ikons and modernist abstract paintings. They vibrate in a field where idea and matter, intention and form coexist and flow into one another, the field from where we are always able to tap into our entire potential.