Art Statement

My intention at the onset of creating a new space is to eliminate all references within the space – the walls, the floors, the ceilings – to dislocate any recognition of spacial reality.

I came to realize that identity to the space around form is the main feature in my work. Once I am satisfied with the space having no borders, then the light can emanate within the dark expansive space. Now, the light can emerge without any reference to borders. Once that is achieved, the light becomes much more mysterious and can be perceived as a three-dimensional form in space.

Usually black or dark colors act as a blockers to dimensional space. For example, a painter might be using a dark color in order to showcase the light. I do the opposite – I use the dark color to expand the space, rather than to enclose it, so that the dark becomes infinity and the expanded space becomes the depth perception which I am creating.

A viewer has no frame of reference when they walk into the room; they cannot see the floor, ceilings, walls – the viewer consciously moves to the light and not reality. Once I disorient the viewers’ perception of reality, they move to a different state of consciousness; the viewer cannot hang onto his outside reality.  All baggage brought in is gone. They move out of a material state of awareness into a non-material realm of thinking. For a moment reality is suspended – no baggage, they are groundless – there is no special awareness. The viewer is now moving beyond the material world into a more non-material state of consciousness with no borders.