Timelessness is a primary sensation when I paint. I experience it as a state of channeling - allowing movement and vision to work seamlessly through my body to develop a record of experience through form. After finishing Arts schooling, and discovering my personal relationship to creative energy, my process with any given piece feels more akin to flow than craft. Sometimes it overwhelms me with its wild nature and I surrender to a phenomenological process.
To experience time, one must be in mind and actively engaged with it’s conceptual nature. Associations with time’s passage, especially in a western capitalist society, can degrade the expansive and non-linear nature of creative expression.
Painting is a type of worship - paying homage to the transition between the physical & conceptual. Allowing a divide between space & time, which so often feel inseparable, art offers a glimpse into the eternal. In my most recent series of paintings, “Liminality”, I explore the physicality of transitions. This concept has taken root in a significant way, as I have been in a deeply liminal state for the last year. The series has provided an opportunity to shed attachments to certainty and stability, and by extension, concrete forms and control of creative process. I will carry this liberation through the rest of my life - in this way I have engaged in a transition that is both considerate of time and unbound to it.
The nature of powerful creative work is to be pervasive and cyclically applicable - its relevance and influence waxes and wanes throughout existence. My hope is that art will continue to hold sacred space in people’s lives, bridging the depth of our internal worlds with the breadth of the external.
In this way we can experience time as a facet of the human experience while not allowing it totality in its grip.