Abstract Experiments with Colour

It is difficult to scientifically approach the notion of consciousness, which is eminently and irreducibly first person. First person accounts and individual insight do not have scientific “objectivity”.

Unlike a scientist an Artist might want to try and communicate the different types of consciousness experienced in everyday life, in sleep and in meditation.

Through using different meditative techniques to examine consciousness whilst painting or whilst investigating how white light breaks into different colours it is apparent that colours can become idiomatic expressions for different elements of the self.

Colours can become symbolic.

Physical matter cannot be fully defined by Scientists. An artist could try to investigate how the mind comprehends physical matter and the spatial dimensions, macro and micro, that spread out into inconceivable distances in every direction and how three dimensional objects are made up of and exist within these spaces.

Objects when broken down seem to be inherently un-findable. We conceptually label these transient un-findable objects with meaning.

The Artist experiences the blurring of subject and object.

These images are abstract expressions that relate to the nature of consciousness colour and matter.

What’s behind the edge of the universe? What’s behind the quantum particles? What’s behind the colour? What’s behind the self?

Infinite energy? Emptiness? Pure consciousness?