An on-going series of non-images created specifically not to say anything
The catalyst for this project is a quote from one of my artistic heroes, John Cage:
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it
But then there’s also the visual stimulus which comes from the work of Sergei Poliakoff. I have seen two large scale retrospectives of Poliakoff’s work and, in both cases, I was struck by how his abstracts somehow have communicate a meaning within them that perhaps is only present within the mind of the beholder.
With that in mind, I devised a mind-emptying, meditative automatic drawing process that creates nebulous, free-forming shapes without me having any pre-determined idea of what they will look like .
Interestingly, seemingly without fail the results are engaging and I like how they encourage the viewer to only focus on shape, colour and form – they have nothing more to say for themselves than that, if they even are saying that much.
Client: Self-led
