The equations of mathematics are balances. One side must equal the other, and being equal, if you subtract one side from the other you are left with nothing.

This idea of nothingness repeats throughout physics. A universe that came from nothing and will go back to it.  The continual reduction of what appears to us to be solid into less and less - massless, dimensionless packets of energy. Artists have also used nothingness to explore the human condition and the void at the heart of existence - the absurdity or meaninglessness of life. But nothingness is also a state of potential - a charged space, a space for contemplation, for unity with the universe.

The drill paintings start with this idea of nothingness, with its materiality, or lack of it. Negative spaces that are both precise and elusive. Small holes, meticulously cut through thin sheets of aluminium, reducing the world to tiny packets of space, each perforation a discrete event. They combine into recognisable features, lines, waves, circles; a shifting constellation of voids. They have a duality, the paradox of one-dimensional, singular points joining together to reveal two-dimensional wave forms flowing across the surface of the panels.