The Universe has no beginning (Oil on panel, 2o07)The basic ideas upon which western metaphysics has rested for hundreds of years are subject to fundamental revision. For example:
1. We abandon the notion that anything has a beginning, or end.
2. We recognise there are no objects in the world.
3. We transcend the division between the mind and world (while simultaneously acknowledging it).
4. We acknowledge that it is in the mind where all qualities and properties exist while also recognising that the mind is the world.
I'm adopting one of the primary visual languages of western metaphysics (baroque, romantic and rococo painting) to generate images that are both bestial and transcendent. My paintings should visually manifest the challenge to western metaphysics.
