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LIGHT
Over the last couple of years while in the midst of so much global uncertainty, I found my attention drawn to constants — the sun, moon, stars, that we collectively witness. Anchored in deep time, they offer a sense of both permanence and of cyclical change. These elements, to me, were reassuring, nurturing and uplifting. Perception is animated by light. The observable world is filled with shadows, shimmers, refractions and shapes. With the slowing of sense awareness, so too is the inner landscape animated by luminosity.
sundoor, pastel on paper, 22 x 22 IN
SUNDOOR
One particular unseasonably warm fall day, I remember exiting the city for one of my “field trips”. After a 10 km walk on a part of the Bruce Trail previously unknown to me, I sat on a log drinking in the sun. The sundoor series was born from a moment like this and from the quiet of meditation, aware of breath and the fullness of essence.
plenitude, 36 x 36 IN casein based paint on canvas
PLENITUDE
Plenus, from the latin meaning full, abundant, abounding, complete and tudo, a state or condition, gives us the word plenitude —- a state of abundance, fullness, completeness. The painting, plenitude, perhaps a moon, perhaps a bubble, perhaps an atom, invites a space of wholeness. Created with casein, lime and pigment, its subtle layering reveals itself with time and shifts of light.
OVERTAKEN BY A SINGLE CLOUD AND LETTING IT PASS
A Haiku poem that reads “overtaken by a single cloud and letting it pass” hangs on my refrigerator door. A cloud can shift the way we see light. We may be consumed by a storm cloud of emotions, events, paranoia, a fog of the l’air du temps or lifted by a dream cloud. The vapour lifts, clouds shift, the sun, stars and moon are always present.
Exhibition on view at Souvenir Studios, Toronto
June 22 – September 17, 2022
*photo credit for first 3 images: Lauren Kolyn