As human beings, we are sense makers.
We constantly try to understand what is happening, what things mean using the pitifully tiny perspective we have been granted by our individual lives and experiences. Although this sense-making serves us well much of the time, it also can be extremely limiting and may keep us from new ideas and ways of thinking and being. It is also exhausting to be constantly assigning meaning and defending our concepts. In this moment, we as a species must move to greater creativity, and also find that we are in dire need of restorative rest.
Shunyata is a Buddhist concept often translated to English as “emptiness” or “void”. It is the idea that phenomena (those things we sense) are devoid of definite or unchanging meaning. Phenomena have unlimited potential. Shunyata can not be taught, but must be directly experienced.
I invite you to lay down that burden of needing to constantly interpret, and simply experience image and word devoid of inherent content. These works don’t have descriptive titles, so there no hint of the meaning of each. In fact, they have no inherent meaning.
The images are monographic photo transfers on printmaking paper with graphite, chalk or colored ink and pencil asemic writing. The larger images are roughly 12” x 17” framed at 18” x 25”. The asemic banners will be sized to be appropriate to the space. This exhibit is suggested for the Interactive Gallery.