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I had spent a year producing very little
in the way of art. There were a few sketches and doodles. One doodle became
the painting, "Alphabit".
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Alphabit helped me to accept that my
paintings need not refer to anything "real". They didn't even have to
have a direct "meaning". Alphabit is an alphabet that doesn't spell anything.
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After that, it was the simple shapes themselves
that I wanted to represent. They reminded me of things under a microscope...things
that exist, but can't readily be seen.
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I discovered that a technology called
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy can capture images of atoms. You aren't
actually "seeing" the atoms; you see the remnants of their energy.
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View some of these incredible images: Scanned
Tip and Electron Image Lab Website
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My paintings started to resemble those
images. I added thick blobs of sparkly paint to the flat planes of color.
I noticed that in spite of trying to create randomness, patterns seemed
to appear.
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I made no deliberate attempts at creating
illusions of depth or dimension or movement. These illusions manifested
themselves by the nature of observation.
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By painting such an intangible, I was
freezing in a moment of 'now' something that has no temporal existence.
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The observer creates meaning. The observer
creates pattern. The observer creates the observed.
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The paintings, "Lifeline", "Lifeline Transitions",
"Soulmates" and "Reincarnation" were a departure into a more emotional
expression.
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The winding, ever flowing line in each
painting became alive. While drawing the line, I could never see very
far ahead. The line would double over the same ground,yet never repeat
itself.
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Though inspired by the microworld, I see
these paintings as a reflection of the macrocosm. As above, so below.
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