Conception

Conception is an expression of feelings through a process of elucidation of abstract forms and spontaneous visions into tangible composition that is representational, that is to say, composed of recognizable visual elements. The work grapples with cause and effect, action and reaction, centralized in the figure of the Jellyfish. Here, the Jellyfish represents primeval life, denizens of the Cambrian depths of prehistoric seas, unlikely inheritors of wasted oceans that through pollution and resulting ecological imbalance might become bacterial slime pits resplendent with scintillating Medusozoa. Entrhalled in these metaphoric tendrils are humn thoughts and feelings trapped in their time like insects in amber. Lust and anger undulate with sensual intertwinings in an intoxicated dance of self-destruction. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, Conception was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.