THE MYTH OF SIGNIFICANCE
November 29, 2025 - January 24, 2026
The gap between an impulse and an action is the self. The self that thinks and decides on which course is seemingly more apt or more personally relevant. However, what is the self? Is it not merely a compilation of experiences? A way of being programmed by the many encounters of the self in the world outside? With modern-day screens, we are constantly being fed an endless stream of information. All of it is related to consumption. Every reel prompts us to feel an emotion that merely propels the algorithms forward. Our lives continue to grow rapidly distant from the basic need to survive
We are told that our lives have significance, but I find it strange that it is usually attached to an external entity. How can something from the outside be the purpose of my being? These days, I focus on the breath since it is the most intimate action within the self. The absence of breath is the absence of life. With every breath, the cosmic miracle that is the air around us fuels our bodily functions. After the breath comes action.
When I think about that gap that is the self, I question its purity. We are organic beings, and it is natural that our existence is the highest purpose. Why should adornments and accolades be more important than the action of being? Even speech is suspect in its significance, as its evolutionary purpose is to aid in the being’s survival in a community.
In this exhibition of paintings, I explore the significance of action. As a result of my drawing and painting practice, I have come to embrace the primal. I move based on intuition. Some call this opening a channel into another world, and I see no problem with that description. Even as I study other painters who have a similar practice as a foundation for my own, when I am making marks and manipulating paint, the self that is most capable of imitation fades into the background. I focus on action after action until the other world tells me that there are no actions left to take.
Although I question certain phenomena that occur in my day-to-day existence, I am mostly not a mystical person. It may seem like I am, but it really is difficult to find metaphors other than alluding to the other world. The phenomenon that I am most interested in is the idea of willing a thing or an event into common reality. The more I dip into the primal, the more I observe these occurrences. This year, 2025, has been a revelatory experience. My attribution to the other world may simply be a metaphor for a heightened sense of awareness. Leaning into this obsession resulted in the works on display.
The Myth of Significance is my act of casting doubt on the meaning-making machines in our brains. It is my act of letting go of who I think I am and who society tells me to be. The only logic that I consciously employ on a daily basis is mitigating risk. The rest is action.
