Artist Statement

Events inform content. Content by implication, constructs. Art evaluates "being there", linking events at the edge to living the silence of our personal space. Some constructs are strange and unfamiliar. The work contains elements of the known and the abstract; the relationship between the pieces is intriguing but unknowable. Components relate to other components by the presence of being there but no amount of dialogue will explain what is there.

Every piece is of its time, as it was made. The timeframe of the making is essential to the work, content is dictated by it. The artist's vision of an inviolate figure in a difficult world, exploring the twilight.

My world-view has been informed and infused with many links and connections. A Buddhist frame of reference, the aboriginal position of "being in the landscape". The poetry of Dante, the sculpture of Bernini, the celebration of the spiritual, not esoteric but the state of "being there", throw in a pinch of Bosch and Breughel for their humanity and Vermeer for the silence in his paintings, as well as an observation made by Princeton physicist John Wheeler who put forward the idea that "meaning itself powers creation".

Evocative and resonant the forms are powerfully still and quiet, their presence soothing.

Adrian Mauriks, 2009