I AM THAT

The silver paintings came naturally without effort, eased into the world and materialized wishing to be seen, as a gift.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form, the mystery of everything.
No answers, only a reflection of what can not be said.
Unspoken, unbroken, One without a second.
The expression found itself and it was recognized.
The naked spirit of silver comes about through the medium of beeswax - encaustic, a process of mixing and scaping, smoothing and layering.
Contemplating the space reflected back completes the unseen cycle that perception makes.
The paintings enable me to see a glimpse of myself without sentimentality, a clear view of how things are.
During the twelve month of work I maintained a position of "hereness", a presence that never left.
Each image - space, proportion, empty and full declares itself open - awake, and the viewer is invited to enter each one.
This Oneness that is here reminds us that we are one in consciousness, alive and well.
The gratitude enters space and is eternal, infinite and free.

Jon Groom