Echoes From The Aether

These works began not as a collection or creative direction, but as necessary journaling -- a way to give form to the emotions that had nowhere else to go. In that moment, painting became the most direct language I had. Against a field of black that represented the void of the mind -- vast and unknowable -- vivid, expressive strokes flared and then receded, like thoughts and memories surfacing very briefly only to disappear again.

They hold the paradox of the subconsciousness; that something as vivid as the soul can dwell in a place so obscure. Each mark is a release and record, a fragment of what it felt like to exist in that time.

A consequence of surviving a near death experience was having these flashes of images that I tried to capture in an attempt to attain catharsis

Only in hindsight do these works reveal themselves as a turning point -- the moment where my subconsciousness began to step forward and influence what came next. They became the bridge to a new way of working, where the immaterial components of reality is no longer hidden but overlaid unto the everyday scenery.

Have you ever been faced with the possibility of death? If you have, then you know that it changes you.

Digital painting, Subconscious Expressionism (2021)

In classical theory, there were four elements (earth, water, air, and fire), sometimes adding a fifth Element, aether, a sort of idealized air that filled the universe above the mundane air we breathe.