Nancy Boyd – Infinite Flux

Opening reception: Saturday, March 8 from 2-5pm; artist in attendance

In the new work, my ongoing attraction to the Buddhist aesthetic/philosophy of Wabi Sabi still pertains. Nothing is perfect, nothing lasts, nothing stays the same.
Time, space and matter are perpetually swirling and shifting to new dimensions and forms. In each mixed media piece, I first fix attention on the appearance of an organic form; either a seed, a pod or a bloom of some indeterminate origin. In a meditative trance of careful drawing, I reflect on the apparent perfection of those forms at a single moment in time.
However wondrously beautiful this particular arrangement of molecules may be at first glance, there is no perfection either in the thing itself or in the drawing. Other forces are acting on the thing and the image constantly, in both cosmic and painterly ways. So I aesthetically interject. My intuitive gestural strokes and vibrational textures interact with the carefully rendered drawing, pushing the whole piece into new, unexpected provisional states that beg for further response.
Small drafted elements of scale and measurement are a counterpoint to the large gestural dark areas. The matte black, with its subtle patterns and textures, alludes to the infinite potential in the dark void of matter, roiling constantly toward a manifestation in form, alive or otherwise: or its opposite, toward the last moment of entropy where nothing at all happens, ever.
The small scale and measurement iconography offers small reassurance to a mind rattled by the inconceivable vastness from which all this accidental magic and matter have evolved.

Preview Thursday and Friday, March 6&7