Everything that exists is energy. Energy can take several forms. Energy transforms. As matter, energy has form, colour, taste, and sound. The painter converts paint and his or her internal and external energy into art, sometimes this expression is conceptual, poetic, or narrative and often it is some combination of all of these.

Colours can communicate shapes, form, and sound. Colour comes from light. Today scientists draw hypothesis about the origin and composition of the universe from pictures taken from the Hubble telescope. Colour provides us with a means to begin to know the universe in its infancy and identify when and how the elements were formed. It allows us to determine the age of a star and variance in light intensity has allowed for the discovery of planets beyond our solar system.

Colour being symbolic can also provide us with insight into ourselves , others and our world both internal and external. Colours communicate feelings, moods, and states of mind. In yoga, Chakras (psycho-energy stations, places where internal energies pool) have associated colours.

We give meaning to certain colours used in combination with certain shapes and objects. The black void is the place of the abyss, the ground of being, the uncaused cause, the great Mother, the unconscious. Black is the colour of interior space. The Goddess is dormant within that black space.

In this body of work I recognize the beginning of a return to more overt symbolism within my abstraction. As one lets go and enters into communion with the energies of the ancestors paint transcends its mere physical limitation and becomes something more. When this happens the work speaks and colour becomes transformed into sound.