Statement
To make art that is whole, referring only to itself as the meaning sought after, this is the art I'm doing. Silence and a sense of time and place are elements in my art.
The work is three-dimensional, but the linear graphite drawing is not read as an object resting on a painted wood surface or in a three-dimensional field.
Rather it refers to the edges of the piece, which in turn – together with its curved and flat surfaces – refer to: the wall, the ceiling and the floor i.e. refer to the surrounding architecture.
And I carry this idea further; each piece in a series refers to the other pieces in the series. A series may refers to the previous work and is the seed for the work to follow.
What matters is... that [the artist] distinguishes between a place and no place at all, and the greater the work of art the greater will be the feeling. And this feeling is the fundamental spiritual dimension. If this doesn't happen, nothing else can happen.
Donald Judd
Using an intuitive sense of left/right balance, I attempt to counter the innate human tendency to feel a stronger visual weight on the right side, by creating a sense of buoyancy on the right side of the work.
A moment of stillness is captured, the relationships between the drawing and the edges, between the left and right sides, between the edges and the wall. Everything in the piece is held in check. There is a tension though this stillness could be right before settling in or right before shifting apart.
