A rectangular painting, like a window, seems to ask how far the picture extends beyond the picture frame. To me, it extends infinitely in all directions. In my art practice, I engage with infinity by confronting my own finiteness. My line can go only so far. My brushstrokes last only so long before they die. I’m inspired by writing and music – specifically, their sequences of moments and beginning-middle-end structure. I’m also inspired by the writings of Lucretius, who rejects the notion of a center or edge to the cosmos and sees life as a fleeting moment within a boundless continuum of time.

In my Lucretius series, I make a single line that begins and ends at the edge of the canvas. The challenge is integrating line with background – figure with ground. I’m interested in the metaphysical issues that arise from this challenge. For me, the figure corresponds to the human condition of finiteness; the ground corresponds to the infinite time and space in which the figure occurs.

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