nothingness

I first discovered nothingness while I was painting my Lake George series.  The challenge in making this work was how to create a sense of stillness, something like a meditation, which you dropped and expanded into.

For me as an artist, nothingness comes back to a state of creation which draws from a dark void, a between-worlds consciousness. 

In the process of mark making for the work I am currently producing on nothingness I move into a meditative state where I expand into space and attempt to disconnect from thought. 

In this process the work tends to create itself.

''Ocean 13", metal leaf, acylic and pigment on paper