The current theme ‘Ecstasy and Death’ is a figurative series that explores the thin line between existence and non existence, between being alive and not being alive.

It has developed from my fascination with binary sequences, where the choice is 1 or 0. 0 is so absolute, and 1 seems to take it’s meaning only in relation to 0. Something or nothing. Life or death. It’s a play of association, which, during the process of writing thousands of 1’s and 0’s, presents to me new forms of representation.

I’ve been struck in the past by the resemblance of the face in ecstasy or orgasm to that of the dying, dead or sleeping... in both the body seems to be vacant.. left behind, gone beyond. In sneezing and yawning there is also a comparison. Painting from found photographs or images I've taken , I hope to explore the ambiguity of these states of being.