Body of work - Our liminal state

My work here offers us a glimpse of the space in which we, in the physical body, exist - in the presence of something earthly and the surroundings of the eternal. We subside in this liminal space between consciously existing and non-existence   from the moment we are born.
 If we are condemned to life we are simultaneously obligated to be free from the structures imposed upon us because we are primitively constructed as ourselves, with the liberty to become ourselves.
 In the paintings we can now begin to choose, for ourselves as individuals, what it is we want to see, to believe, without a pre-conditioned or pre-existent element of choice – we may now begin to question, or we will forever dwell in the liminal shadows of nothingness.

 

Personal Statement: Our Liminal State

We are born into this world with, unquestionably, no knowledge of any aspects of life- organically and neutrally constructed. Our life begins to play out and structures are brought upon us that we could not yet possibly have the means to evaluate or reflect on. As we grow we conform to these teaching that have been forced upon us: these teachings are to be the foundations of how we now live our lives.

As we remain the passive bystanders disillusioned by each other’s presuppositions; we begin to lose ourselves, becoming just another obscured face. Deceived by life’s pleasures and sensualities we are happy to remain ignorant of our indefinite essence, finding it easier carry on with the convenience of the everyday life - we are the universal victims of despair.

The work here offers us a sight of the space in which we, in the physical sense, exist. In the presence of something earthly and the surroundings of the eternal, we subside in this liminal space between consciously existing and non-existence from the moment we are born, condemned to it while also obligated to be free from it. Condemned because we are all born neutrally and then corrupted. Obligated because we are primitively constructed as ourselves, to become ourselves.

We must now begin to choose, for ourselves as individuals, what it is we want to believe, to become, to do and to see; with no pre-conditioned or pre-existent element of choice, or we will forever dwell in the liminal shadows of nothingness.

The Ambiguity of what Self?

This piece push's the notion of minimalism, it is an Eradication of all sense of object or life and plays with the notion of one’s interaction with the work  becoming an essential. Using multiple layers of all type of varnish’s and mediums  it exudes a highly reflective surface in selected places within the work, that when one looked upon one may see one’s self and therefore be within the space of the piece (within nothing) and in other spots would lose the reflection so one may glimpse themselves in the reflection but as the viewer analysis’s the piece they lose themselves and begin looking again.

The work is  much more physical, material based and literal  as opposed to the psychological thought of space and being that can evoke one's imagination and thought.