Still life - mixed media

Still life offers the imagination a doorway to the invisible. The objects such as they may be are rarely the purpose of the painting – they usually refer to something else, either metaphorically or by referencing a place or state of mind beyond the visual depiction. For me, still life is the closest thing I know to explore the ineffable, the numinous and the the secret world of being alive that in any event defies rational understanding. If ‘God’ (aka ‘Goddess’) wore a medal or a badge, gave a gift or spoke about truth, I think he would have a chosen a still life to show it…