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In a land of perpetual summer, I felt caged within the walls of a sanctuary I could not venture out from and duties I could not fulfil. Nighttime was the refuge that allowed me to roam undisturbed in dream. This led to my comfort and curiosity with the night. I become fascinated with the artistic notions of time, space, light and gravity, representations of which I have pursued in this series entitled Lights Out.

Lights Out is about using abstract visual cues to signify things like dust, matter, and atoms, or stars, planets, and galaxies in cosmic landscapes; the paintings explore sensations of being empty and full, feelings of being far yet close, to lead the viewer into disengaging with reality for a moment. The spots on the canvases are sometimes random but, more often than not, purposeful; they create a sense of movement and depth in some regions and stillness in others. Some spots also join up to create words and images that ultimately disappear into the whole; viewers may not be able to identify these unless guided but, like seeing shapes in a cloud or images in an inkblot test, they can derive various words or images (that are not actually present) via the actions of their own unconscious and active perception. And it is this collaborative experience between artist and viewer that fulfills the purpose of these paintings: Imagination, leading to an appreciation of something-not-quite-there, which makes the paintings more than just a canvas of spots.