This piece came together in many stages over the course of more than a year, never quite right because I wasn’t yet ready to understand what I was trying to tell myself. It gelled into this now final version when I was finally able to understand – One can be of something and at the same time an observer of that something, both part of and separate from simultaneously.
Our reality is dualistic in nature – 1/0, ying/yang, rich/poor, here/there – and much of my artwork explores that dualism, the contrast and conflict that happens when we identify as either one thing or another – in one place or another. The observer is that part of me that transcends duality and materiality; Simultaneously part of the world, made up of worldly material, yet also beyond it, above/apart from it. It is the quantum nature of consciousness, and it allows us to transcend the material by taking a step back, widening our perspective, and observing the whole while still being a part of that whole.