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.

 

The self- existing

Man is born ethically neutral, hes is then corrupted at youth by false teachings that are forced upon him which he cannot yet have the means to evaluate or reflect on . therefor man is not yet himself, for he is conforming to teachings which he himself has not chose, therefor all of man is in despair. despair of not being oneself and not being able to rid himself of himself. in order for man to ascertain his true sense of self he must now rid himself of himself, question and re-evaluate everything he has ever learned and choose for himself what it is he is to be, for everything is mans own choice. By doing this man may now define his own essence in accordance to his true self, and in doing so may now truly feel what it means to exist.

- self reflection   

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.