The Beginning & The Ending #2 Painting

There are estimated to be about eighty six billion neurones in the human brain, and what constitutes ‘consciousness’ and ‘awareness’ still remains a mystery to us. Albert Einstein believed in a central order to the cosmos, an order that can be directly apprehended by the soul in mystical union. He devoutly believed that although science, religion, art, and ethics are necessarily distinct endeavours, it is wonderment in the face of ‘the Mystery of the Sublime’ that properly motivates them all. He believed that the universe is a single significant whole and ‘cosmic religious feeling knows no dogma and no God conceived in man’s image, so there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it.’ However, in his view ‘it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it’. ‘We lie in the lap of immense intelligence which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson We are part and parcel of this immense intelligence. An undeniable conviction in the miraculous nature of our deepest selves in conjunction with timeless, universal principles, has informed and continues to sustain my passion. This incessant inquiry is what calls the deepest part of me to create visual metaphors for such otherwise invisible principles. To make things I’ve never seen before, images with visual intensity, both compelling and enduring, this is what I wish for. I like things that baffle me, that make me feel compelled to look at them again and again, things capable of many reinterpretations. Within the working process I have a preference for open simplicity and spontaneity, and a will to try new things. This enables me to rehearse attitudes towards everything that matters in the rest of my life, everything I encounter in this vast, mysterious, beautiful world.