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 produced on nothingness I moved into a meditative state where I expand into space and attempt to disconnect from thought.
In this process the work tends to create itself.


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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness"
- John Keats