“yugen, when you have so little you have to imagine it.” Ocean Vuong’
During the drawn-in time of COVID-19 quarantine, these growing inner, infinitesimal signals sparked with me. In response, I began to explore my innate intuition. What we see is perceiving, discrete to each individual, often dis-allowing for experiential expansion. When we are young, playing and imagining flow outward without hesitation or inhibition. But then, our upbringing becomes about knowing limits and accepting the confines of conventional thinking. In the freedom of space and time, I found myself taking those radio-like air impulses to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before in a form of unknowing visual contemplation. Bending light, augmenting color, animating inanimate objects into tangible prismatic captures. I felt heightened in a rush of visual chromatics, stretching the actual to in pursuit of the genesis of the spark. I felt able to engage possibility and externalize my inner space. Drawing upon the Japanese idea of yugen, it is my hope that these meditative images provide the viewer with opportunities for reciprocity and resonance, realizing that we are more than we believed ourselves to be, with more to see if we are willing to listen.
