I first drew symmetry out of anxiety. When I saw symmetry, I visualized a painting and its language of color, blurred shapes, and sharp contours. For me, symmetry embodied a dense, visual experience. And at some point, I began to blur such arrangements. I am unsure whether I blurred to either comfort my anxiety or to further my angst. This process reminded me of a flickering candle, and the blurring of symmetry eventually revealed a certain life-force lurking beneath the fragility to maintain formative balance. Perhaps I wanted to understand what it means to be blurred, to be shaken by inserting myself into such precarity.

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Flickering denotes uncertainty in movement, situations, or mentality. Is it possible to reinterpret such negative connotations of the word through painting? I began drawing candles to figure out the reasons for the light’s seemingly diametric qualities of both uncertainty and solidity.

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We feel a sense of fragility in the candle, but we also feel a sense of solidity due to our perception of its three-dimensional quality rather than as a fragmentary, fixed object. Does the medial reading of an object stem from its flickering? Could this quivering shape be a new opportunity for a grander gaze? I believe that this three-dimensionality and expansive scope ultimately solidifies the candle.

We feel a sense of fragility in the candle, but we also feel a sense of solidity due to our perception of its three-dimensional quality rather than as a fragmentary, fixed object. Does the medial reading of an object stem from its flickering? Could this quivering shape be a new opportunity for a grander gaze? I believe that this three-dimensionality and expansive scope ultimately solidifies the candle. The candle flickers. I quiver along with the light. The paintings also flicker—at times calmy and at times violently. It feels like a dance. As such, the candle images are all different. The candle reveals itself as symmetry of lines and planes, but also divulges itself amidst the intertwined heap. This broadened spectrum of images all indicate a certain flicker. Can this swaying and dance ignite the embers within? Recently, I have started to combine the various paintings to create a single work. Beginning with a simple idea of shaking the paintings, this new arrangement displays multiple screens and as such renders multifaceted viewpoints. One large screen shakes to become many—providing structure to a multitude. This development ultimately visualizes said three-dimensionality of the candle and its flickering.

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This flickering of the candle and painting are moments that capture three-dimensionality. As such, I hope that this swaying of both candle and painting will contextualize the dynamic relationship and lend itself forward like a dance. I relish the fire that flickers and shakes—the fire that makes me dance inside.