lily petals, leaves, cotton petals, beeswax, mica pigment, oil on raw canvas, 30” x 48”, 2020-2021
“…the creative process is an autonomous complex, a living independent organism implanted, that leads an independent psychic life withdrawn from the hierarchy of consciousness…”
- Herbert Read, The Forms of Things Unknown, p.53
“…and by crossing over each time enormous periods of the internal history of things, quasi-instantaneous views are going to be taken, views this time pictorial, of which the most vivid colors condense an infinity of repetitions and elementary changes.” -Henri Bergson
Acrylic, oil, enamel, mica pigment, straw blossoms, jhinga fruit, ball fruit, reindeer moss, peepal pods, sponge mushrooms on raw canvas, 30” x 51”, 2020
“The meaning of the figure is undecidable, and yet we must attempt to dis-figure it, to read the logic of the metaphor.” - Gayatri Spivak
Oil, acrylic, spray paint, millberry seeds, peepal pods, jackberries, Silk pigments, enamel, butterscotch flowers, reindeer moss on raw canvas
18” x 20”, 2020
Oil, acrylic, enamel, cotton petals, sponge mushrooms, millberries and mica pigment on raw canvas, 28” x 36”, 2020
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -Charles Darwin
Oil, acrylic, mica pigment, enamel, moss, and botanicals on canvas, , 72” x 84”, 2019
From so simple a beginning, detail
“The very nature of materiality is an entanglement. Matter itself is always already open to, or rather entangled with, the "Other." ― Karen Barad
OIl, acrylic, enamel, peepal pods, windmill pods on raw canvas, 18” x 20”, 2020
“Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.” ― Avital Ronell
Cotton petals, sponge mushrooms, enamel & Silk pigments on canvas, 30” x 70”, 2020
“Individuals do not preexist their interactions; rather, individuals emerge through and as part of their entangled intra-relating.” - Karen Barad
Oil, acrylic, enamel, mica pigment, peepal pods & millberry seeds on raw cavnas, 18” x 20”, 2020
“Objectivity means being accountable for marks on bodies, that is, specific materializations in their differential mattering. We are responsible for the cuts that we help enact not because we do the choosing […] but because we are an agential part of the material becoming of the universe.” ― Karen Barad
Oil, acrylic, mica pigment, sponge mushrooms, plastic leaves, jackberries on raw canvas, 18” x 20”, 2020
Jackberries, peepal pods, plastic succulents, mica pigment, acrylic & enamel on raw canvas, 60” x 72”, 2019
Oil, acrylic, mica pigment powder, enamel, jackberries and bell pods on raw canvas
60” x 72”, 2019
Quantum entanglement is a label for the observed physical phenomenon that occurs when a pair or group of particles is generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the pair or group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, even when the particles are separated by a large distance.
liquid rubber, jackberries, sponge mushrooms, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2019
Oil, acrylic, mica pigment, enamel, moss, ball fruit & peepal pods on primed canvas. Finished size: 60” x 72”, 2019
...in the dawning recognition of Earth as the forgotten basis of all our awareness. - David Abram
oil, acrylic, pigment, flashe, moss on raw canvas
50" x 70", 2019
It is as if the in painter's calling there were some urgency above all other claims on him. Strong or frail in life, but incontestably sovereign in his rumination of the world, possessed of no other "technique" that the skill his eyes and hands discover in seeing and painting, he gives himself entirely to drawing from the world [...] canvases which hardly add to the angers or hopes of humanity; and no one complains. What, then, is the secret science which he has or which he seeks? [...] What is this fundamental of painting, perhaps of all culture? - Merleau Ponty, Eye and Mind
oil, acrylic, enamel, botanicals & plastic leaves on canvas
60" x 70", 2019