Not so dark as a silent house (2019)—a series of mixed-media pieces —takes inspiration from two eloquent poems, Evening by Rainer Maria Rilke and I Remember by Rick Holland. The poems express two opposing notions and are in line with the artist explorations of the binary forces that life presents. The work is of a restrictive palette, ambiguously portraying the dichotomies of experience such as absence and presence, darkness and light, and fragility and resilience; aspects that have accompanied human existence. Consequently, Not so dark as a silent house offers a visual metaphor for how these opposing dualities can simultaneously exist and cause ripples or understanding in our lives.
