Elemental Blue mixed media on canvas124x80cm
Birdsong 1, mixed media on canvas, 100x30cm
It is my attempt in these paintings to express the interconnectedness between human consciousness and nature, thus blurring the distinction between self and the world: consciousness cannot be bound.
I stand immersed in a forest of birdsong. There are nuances of colour, barely breathed, ascending, descending, receding. Volume, texture, variety, harmony, dimension, depth, crescendo, tempo, rhythm. A polyphony of sound rushes in. Life resonates, being, participating, relational, vibrations, weaving in and out of dimensions with glimpses to the beyond. It is an encounter with a vital presence.
And so, in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke: 'Silently the birds fly through us still.'
Between Creation and Chaos - installation detail, University of Toronto
Citrinitas - the Alchemical Notebook series, mixed media on canvas, 70x48cm
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