Is life, for everybody, a private hallucination?
Working with a carefully chosen, limited colour palette using gesture, pattern and geometry this work explores themes of subjectivity, alienation, non-duality, loss of self and communal experience. It is an attempt to understand ourselves as persons, embedded in the world ; as embodied, interdependent, continua of psycho-physical processes rather than individual things.
This is happening to me. Is it happening to you?
These are speculative experiments/proposals negotiating certain unstable visual situations activated by the viewer. Driven by the unknowable internal life of others, this work is a frustrated struggle against that unknowableness.
The wrong colours at the wrong dosage
Choosing individually benign colours that become reactive when combined in precise relationships, this antagonistic chromatic machinery is applied across various scenarios - abstract, figurative, textual - in an attempt to challenge the points of contact between what is oneself and what is not oneself. These effects and relationships seem to have limits and I’m interested in pushing the scenarios to failure in an exercise, ultimately, in frustration, futility and bathos.