In The Primacy of Movement, philosopher Maxine Sheets-Johnstone embraces a re-framing of the notion of knowledge as one originating and embedded in the somatic - in the sensations experienced by the body as distinct from the mind. Children learn about space by reaching for objects, by displacing and attuning their body towards and into the world. In youth, my first encounter with art-making began with drawing. Later on, my awareness of our coexistence with nature grew from walking into the woods, from climbing rocks and observing vegetation, root systems and cascading waterfalls. I am meditating on the notion of melding the interplay of forces within nature, culture, and the primordial via the visual arts. I orchestrate lines as waves in space using minimal industrial materials as a contrived sketch of a fragment of effervescent nature. The visual rhythms and circularity of the work induce the observer to circulate around the work and to gain a knowledge that is purely somatic, unencumbered by the artifice of words.
The circular orbits the paradoxical in that is is both the beginning and the end, the 0 of Arabic numerals, the ensō of Zen Buddhism, the encompassing that welcomes the void, and the envelope that embraces nothingness.