Gazing into my abstract paintings involves collapsing the possibilities of a semi-formless chaos into an interpretation. The complex yet indistinct shapes, colours, and textures invite the imagination to take part in the painting. This co-creative style of abstraction acknowledges and draws out the creator from within the observer.
Like the Rorschach inkblot test, my images can be used to facilitate a mild form of conscious visualization known as pareidolia. The viewer supplies the content and meaning of what is discovered in these dynamic playgrounds. This inbuilt subjectivity allows one painting to appear differently to a multitude of viewers, functioning in part as a kind of subconscious mirror.
In quantum theory, particles may exist in more than one state when no one is looking at them; curiously, my paintings exist in multiple states especially when people are looking at them. A group of people reported seeing the following images in the painting below:
a whale with a blue-green eye
an elephant
a lady dressed in pink holding a scepter
a robot dog
a lion’s nose
a mountain landscape
an elderly man with long hair
a skull
a fish blowing bubbles, waves
a pair of children
Note: not everyone will visualize, nor is it the point of my art. Complex abstract imagery is a playground for the mind, and visualization is one of many games people enjoy