Using the colourful drawing inks to create abstract paintings via droplets and pools of water I’ve managed to create macro worlds of colour, shape and pattern. The images represent the indexical trace of the ink in the water droplet and, therefore, it’s the indexical trace of the space in which the ink was suspended until the water evaporated. This has made me think about how our understanding of, or acceptance of what actually represents a physical space is interpreted. The droplet paintings could therefore be seen as a space that once was. Similar to Kapoor’s definition of the negative space within his art when he explains to Charlotte Higgins of The Guardian: “I’m interested in the void … the moment when it isn’t a hole; it is a space full of what isn’t there.”
