Skins - Suns and Souls

Solo exhibition at Quartiertreff Lola, St. Johann in Basel, April - December 2024.

Artworks of handmade paper, dyed with onion skins, illustrations, silk screens, paintings and earthy colours and feelings; showing the fragile nature of organic existence and the dynamism of flow through space and time with expressions of bliss and joy.

Are we mere flesh and blood, skins and bones, souls, perhaps even mere figments of imaginations; gone in a blip ? How deep and wide do our cyclical, societal interceptions influence history ? Do our epigenetics become accumulations embedded in samskaras ? Do things simply and mindlessly repeat themselves, time and time again or are they part of a greater and higher cosmic order ? Is there a summation of individual consciousnesses or are we part of an all-pervading, interconnected collective that over-rides everything ? Where 'time and tide waits for none', in reference to a commonly used idiom from Chaucer's Prologue to the Clerk's Tale about 1395; time and nature being variable factors; where certain patterns remain constant and in-built errors repeat themselves at regular intervals, to break the flow. Organic and inorganic decay is inevitable, with or without our interventions and exacerbated anthropocentric destruction. Is this planet too heavy ?

Where there is hope, there is joy, with the cyclical rise and fall of the glowing sun. As we spin around in our solar system; a sub-system of many systems and an endless continuum, persisting seamlessly without head nor tail nor a predictable end nor beginning. From the Upanishads, 'Where there is joy, there is creation. Know the nature of joy'.