Alex Lark

When someone tried to teach me meditation, they told me to clear my mind, “to think of nothing.”

While this made sense, I couldn’t do it.

They said if thoughts wander into my head, imagine them as clouds drifting across the sky.

This I could imagine and soon I saw a blue sky with idyllic clouds floating by.

I still think it is impossible to think of nothing.

Seeing Nothing and Calm are installations that exist as a meditative relationship between light, space and time. By heightening the material nature of light as we see it through subtractive colour mixing and specular reflection you're positioned to doubt your reality - questioning what and how you see. There is an energy provoked in the state of the unknown; a sense of infinity.

The artworks are experienced from an ambiguous viewpoint; everything is in your eyes. If you move, the perspective changes. A continuous encounter is stimulated by the desire to perceive the animate colour field and comprehend the adjacent void. A visual paradox of solid emptiness.