On Iridescence, Insistence, and the Threshold of Becoming

The Impact Wall, Transitions was created within a sustained sonic and physical environment shaped by the repeated playing of Knocking on Heaven’s Door - Raign. This repetition held me inside the transitional state that defines the work, a space where something is ending and something else is forming. The piece is built through layering, iridescent colour shifts, and the insistence of repeated gestures, each registering a moment of transformation.

The work operates as both a painting and a record of perceptual change. Its surface destabilises and reorganises depending on the viewer’s position, emphasising the instability of the threshold state it examines. Installed at the entrance to Transitions, a group exhibition, the Impact Wall, Transitions, positions the viewer within this moment of becoming before they enter the main exhibition.

This inquiry continues across the pieces Threshold (2025), Portals to Elsewhere (2025), and Light’s Little Dancer (2025) )threaded throughout the exhibition. Each work explores how material holds emotion, how uncertainty becomes visible, and how transformation can be understood as a felt, embodied process. These works investigate the spaces where coherence has not yet formed, where perception shifts and new meaning begins to take shape.

The Impact Wall articulates the core premise of Transitions: that change is a lived, material condition. As Romulus Folio Gallery with open studio, home to my artist residency, moves through its own phase of evolution, the work extends this proposition beyond the canvas, situating the gallery’s trajectory and my practice within the same unfolding threshold.