Life in Black & White a title of playful paradox, symbolised by the two tones of colour presented in the piece. The abstract symbolism of the work prompts the viewer to look beyond the simplicity of Black & White and find meaning in the gray, more ethereal areas of life.

The space between the dots are representational of the space between matter, the space between atoms; in which an energy exists, a power, a force, that gives form to matter and all the physical structures of the universe. Similarly the spaces between the dots in the art work compose to give form and make up the symbolic shapes and meaning of the representational symbols in each piece.

The idea is conceived in duality, one to represent the whole; an embodiment of our relationship to our cultures, our meanings, our environments and our physical foundations in which we rely upon to form the larger pictures of our lives. The other to represent how individual parts are required to form the whole, each tiny atom and particle of matter in its energetic spin to create physical form.

The light and shadow interacting with the art work is in a constant state of flux, an epitome of the ever changing landscape of our own cultures, environments, our own lives and our own existence. As the image is subject to the continual change of the world around it, and is reflective of those changes, so too are we in our perception of the world around ourselves and our reactions and interactions to and within it.

Our world is changing, we as people are changing with it, evolving mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually all of the time. The art work is a symbolic portrayal of this evolution and a physical representation of the energetic responses to such transformation; a reflection of the passing of time in its response to changing fields of light.

Life in Black & White proposes the concept that life is often, purportedly, viewed in this manner; of fact and fiction, yes and no, ones and zeros. Yet all of the beauty and joy in life so often lies within these "in between spaces", in the changing flux of the gray areas that call us to look beyond what is seen in our physical environments and ask ourselves deeper more innate questions of our world and our own existence; to ask what lies beyond the physical make up of the yes and no, ones and zeros, the fact and fiction.

The work asks the viewer to observe, acknowledge, reflect and engage with our own change, in contemplation of its constantly changing light qualities, and in doing so coaxes us to celebrate the unseen mystical makeup of our (trans-formative) being. We are encouraged to contemplate those parts of ourselves that aren't physical, the parts that can’t be explained in Black & White, in facts and measurement, the parts that are the ever changing gray areas of our mysterious, energetic and spiritual selves.