Part of the As Above, So Below constellation
Solo exhibition · 29 November – 3 December, 2021 · Long Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Self within an expanding Universe. Self, an echo of the Universe.

Autocosmology is not autobiography. This work is not about who I am. It is about revealing the field through which self becomes visible. It begins with the understanding that self arises within—and as—the cosmos. The self as a cosmic process, not a fixed identity.

The materials are not symbolic. They act. They shape and respond. In working with them, I came to know both myself and the cosmos—not as separate realms, but as one unfolding field.

Part I
Five large-scale wall paintings made with chalkboard paint, chalk-white furniture paint, acrylic hue, and pure pigment on wood. Each 8’x7’ surface concluded with a single pipette-drawn line across the top edge—a final gesture from which gravity took over. Paint ran down freely in unpredictable streams, shaped by angle, breath, and chance. Each form is unique, like every living being—distinct, yet echoing the cosmos; microcosms of the greater whole.

Part II
A central wall installation combining cyanotype on paper, a magnifying lens, and painted wall. Seven tiny 1×1″ cyanotypes embedded in a 3’x7’ field invite close looking—each a microcosm within the larger field of presence. They shimmer with spectral traces, echoes of light, memory, and sky. For me, color and presence are inseparable. Each hue carries sound, texture, and sensation.

This work does not look outward or inward. It stands at the threshold between.
This is the cosmos, folded into form.
And form, folding back into cosmos.

This work may be reimagined as a site-specific installation and is available for commission.