You are walking along a road, on a pavement, past trees, people. You consider the path ahead of you. You can see it ready and waiting for your shoes contact. You can see the corner of the street where you will turn. It’s ten minutes away but it is there waiting. It exists in your immediate future! So the path, trees, people and their particles exist in the future? How far into the future? All the way to eternity? Or does everything coagulate and coalesce out of nothing in the present, into solidity, certainty, truth in an act of perpetual worlding?

I am interested in what either of these possibilities might look like before our senses, mind and language conspire to paint our reality: the potential of pre-objects prior to their being subjectively observed.

In this series of paintings I bring particles of carbon, black oil or acrylic, paper or canvas together, allowing behaviour and material to engage with each other in mutual activation. The dust is worked in with a broom and agitated, or activated with a stick. Paint is applied directly from the tube or trowelled on indiscriminately before being covered with tracing paper and spread with a blade, allowing the tools, materials and gestures to make unsettling shapes in tension, that appear to have not yet decided on their final forms.