“We are beginning to see, thanks to information technology, a paradigm
shift from a material worldview to a consciousness-based worldview. We are beginning to understand that what
exists at the essential core of matter is information and energy…..the
essential stuff of the universe is “nonstuff”; the atom, which is the basic
unit of matter, is not a solid entity, but a heirarchy of states of information
and energy in a huge void” – Deepak Chopra
Impermanence and transformation in relation to matter and consciousness are recurring themes in my work and for many years I have been working with themes connected to the psychological and physical workings of the brain.
Much of my work is process based
moving from drawings and photography to paintings and digital media.
More recently I have been exploring the idea of Liminal Space a state characterised by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminancy
…a period of transition, during which your normal limits to thought,
self-understanding and behaviour are relaxed, opening the way to something new…
‘Space’ can be perceived as a mutable philosophical construct whether it be the internal ‘space’ of the mind or the exterior ‘space’ of the world we live in. The post-modern world having collapsed into a dislocated, fragmented and complex space of collage and montage, is no longer determinate and predictable but relative and random.
The Japanese architect and writer Kisho Kurokawa refers to the philosophical idea of ‘symbiosis’ as a means of resolving the many contradictions of life and as an alternative to the black and white Western ‘dualist’ approach. He refers to ‘intermediary zones’ in relation to architectural design, a place of transition, where perspectives fuse and meanings become multiple and ambiguous. A liminal space?
Could this idea of liminal space be a space of resolution, a sacred space a space of reverie, transformation and transcendence?