ABOUT

 

That Silent Moment is an exhibition in two parts: paintings and drawings on paper, and an animated video. It explores the meditative or spiritual side of art represented through abstract images that allude to the figure, landscape, and emotion. My art making starts with a conscious choice of a colour, medium, or mark, followed by a series of intuitive responses that arise from that moment in time. My hope is that viewers experience an instant when conscious/unconscious awareness, intellect, emotion, memory, and physicality come together to create a silent pause that takes them beyond the piece of art. Some define this pause as a meditative or spiritual experience.

 

The small to medium size drawings and paintings are not studies for larger pieces—each one is a finished piece on its own. There is an intimacy to a small work of art—you have to move in closer to take it all in. Each of the paintings and drawings is a spontaneous moment in time, but they are connected to each other by being visually aligned around the room in a broken grid to stimulate impromptu connections for the viewer.

 

The animated video digitally connects thousands of black ink images on paper created over the past couple of years in a daily practice of stream of consciousness drawing. The drawings in the sequence were chosen for their similarity to, or contrast with, each other. Through movement, they are transformed, making a new image that was not there in the individual still drawings—something that was previously invisible is now visible. The video can be viewed in silence or accompanied by suggested music accessed through the QR codes next to the screen.