The Breath of Unity

“The Breath of Unity”: a canvas with no figure and no centre. 75 × 105 cm, mixed media.

The abstraction is fluid, cloud-like. No borders inside it, nothing for the eye to catch, and it gives up searching fairly quickly.

Gold inclusions run over the whole plane. They read as a pulse coming through the general field.

The breath in the title is no metaphor. Sanskrit prana, Hebrew ruach, Greek pneuma all mean breath and spirit at once. One word for two meanings, in three languages, which is not a coincidence.

The unity is about a shared source.

Hang it where it is quiet: a practice room, a bedroom, a study where a person is alone.

You breathe in and the whole world comes into you. You breathe out and it turns out you are the whole world. That is roughly the state I was collecting.

There is nothing in it to explain. You walk up and you stand.

I sell my work myself, with no gallery in the middle.