Abstract Window into Nothing

Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 6ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Black and White

Abstract Window into Nothing invites the viewer to look through — and find themselves reflected. This 72 x 72 inch piece from the Black and White Collection features a translucent central frame set inside a textured, light-absorbing background of cool whites, faded pinks, and soft metallics. What appears at first to be a window reveals only absence — or perhaps presence turned inward.

This painting emerged from a meditation on attention and emptiness. What do we expect to find when we look “into” something? A landscape? A truth? An answer? Here, the window doesn’t offer content. It offers awareness. It offers the act of looking.

The work engages with the conceptual restraint of John Baldessari and Robert Irwin, though my materials remain rooted in the tactile. The carved layers and hazy glazes are meant to feel like residue — a surface worn by looking, not just by making.

I wasn’t trying to depict emptiness, but rather the condition of confronting it. In a world obsessed with clarity and productivity, Abstract Window into Nothing asks: What if stillness is enough?

This piece doesn’t reflect a view. It reflects you.