Liminal Spaces

Throughout the three day workshop I became hyper focused on the idea of a wall that shows the permeable nature of reality. I have been pondering several questions "What is a wall?" If the nature of reality has an underlying oneness are walls real? Walls can cause pain and they can create safety. What happens if we hold the consept of a wall with its oppiste, no seperation, and encounter the world the truth of both. Hmm. I really worked on the drawings, to get the right perspective.

Why a bathtub? Well I had several cut out from a previous project and when I couldnt figure out how to resolve the painting I just stuck a tub on it. Wola! It works. Tubs are places to clean the body, relax, think and get warmed up. They can be understood as places of privlage. The bathtubs in these images are antique, evolking a time in Western history of a more duelistic perspective of the world. This is in contrast the the non-duality depiction of the wall.

Last note the paintings began with a monoprint of my heeart drawing exersize. I thought it meaningful that the heart is what we see moveing through the wall. It exists on both sides of the wall, and the liminal space in between. The heart makes a wall breath.

In the middle image the baby is being birthed through the wall and the big pink thing references the dream and the hotdog nipple I mentioned a few days ago.

This last one is a mystery. I don't think it is done yet.